William Selinger

Parliamentarism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781108468855
• ISBN-10: 1108468853
• Artikelnr.: 59758510

Autorenporträt

William Selinger is Lecturer in European History, 1700-1850 at University College London. He is a historian of political thought whose work has focused on the development of modern theories of democracy, representative government, and the state. His articles have appeared in a variety of political theory and intellectual history journals. Prior to publication, this book was awarded the Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Award, 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The eighteenth-century House of Commons
2. Edmund Burke's theory of parliamentary politics
3. The French Revolution and the liberal parliamentary turn
4. Reinventing parliamentarism: the significance of Benjamin Constant
5. Democracy in America, parliamentarism in France: Tocqueville's unconventional parliamentary liberalism
6. John Stuart Mill and the Victorian theory of Parliament
Conclusion.