Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850-1950 (eBook, PDF)

Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies
Redaktion: Sablin, Ivan; Bandeira, Egas Moniz

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions, and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution of modern institutions of collective decision-making in Eurasia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000393286
• Artikelnr.: 61384359

Autorenporträt

Ivan Sablin is a research group leader in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany. Egas Moniz Bandeira is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Duma, yuan, and beyond: Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires 2. Montesquieu vs. Bagehot: Two Visions of Parliamentarism in Japan 3. Public opinion under imperial benevolence: Japanese 'National Essence' leader Torio Koyata's anti-liberal parliamentarianism in the Genro-in and the House of Lords 4. Zemskii sobor (The Assembly of the Land): Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian "parliament" 5. The 22 Frimaire of Yuan Shikai: Privy Councils in the Constitutional Architectures of Japan and China, 1887-1917 6. A Rada for the empire: An invented tradition of Cossack self-governance during the 1905 Revolution 7. Ottoman Parliamentary Procedure in the Chamber of Deputies (Meclis-i Mebusan) and the Great National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi), 1876-1923 8. Nominal Democracy in Stalinism: The Soviet Constitution of 1936 9. The Preparations for the First Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Quest for Legitimacy