Agents of the people [[electronic resource] ] : democracy and popular sovereignty in British and Swedish parliamentary and public debates, 1734-1800 / / by Pasi Ihalainen |
Autore | Ihalainen Pasi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (546 p.) |
Disciplina | 321.8 |
Collana | Studies in the history of political thought |
Soggetto topico |
Representative government and representation - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Representative government and representation - Sweden - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-78688-1
9786612786884 90-04-18394-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / P. Ihalainen -- Introduction / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter One. British And Swedish Parliamentary Debates In A Comparative Study Of Political Vocabularies / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Two. Variations In British Parliamentary Conceptions Of The People, 1734–1771 / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Three. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty And Representative Democracy Exist In Sweden Before 1772? / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Four. The Re-Evaluation Of The Representation Of The People And Democracy In Westminster, 1772–1789 / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Five. Reactions To The Revolutionary Concepts Of Democracy And Popular Sovereignty In Westminster, 1789–1800 / P. Ihalainen -- Conclusion / P. Ihalainen -- Bibliography / P. Ihalainen -- Index Of Persons / P. Ihalainen -- Index Of Subjects / P. Ihalainen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459292003321 |
Ihalainen Pasi | ||
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agents of the people [[electronic resource] ] : democracy and popular sovereignty in British and Swedish parliamentary and public debates, 1734-1800 / / by Pasi Ihalainen |
Autore | Ihalainen Pasi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (546 p.) |
Disciplina | 321.8 |
Collana | Studies in the history of political thought |
Soggetto topico |
Representative government and representation - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Representative government and representation - Sweden - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-282-78688-1
9786612786884 90-04-18394-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / P. Ihalainen -- Introduction / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter One. British And Swedish Parliamentary Debates In A Comparative Study Of Political Vocabularies / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Two. Variations In British Parliamentary Conceptions Of The People, 1734–1771 / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Three. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty And Representative Democracy Exist In Sweden Before 1772? / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Four. The Re-Evaluation Of The Representation Of The People And Democracy In Westminster, 1772–1789 / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Five. Reactions To The Revolutionary Concepts Of Democracy And Popular Sovereignty In Westminster, 1789–1800 / P. Ihalainen -- Conclusion / P. Ihalainen -- Bibliography / P. Ihalainen -- Index Of Persons / P. Ihalainen -- Index Of Subjects / P. Ihalainen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785266303321 |
Ihalainen Pasi | ||
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Agents of the people [[electronic resource] ] : democracy and popular sovereignty in British and Swedish parliamentary and public debates, 1734-1800 / / by Pasi Ihalainen |
Autore | Ihalainen Pasi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (546 p.) |
Disciplina | 321.8 |
Collana | Studies in the history of political thought |
Soggetto topico |
Representative government and representation - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Representative government and representation - Sweden - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-282-78688-1
9786612786884 90-04-18394-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / P. Ihalainen -- Introduction / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter One. British And Swedish Parliamentary Debates In A Comparative Study Of Political Vocabularies / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Two. Variations In British Parliamentary Conceptions Of The People, 1734–1771 / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Three. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty And Representative Democracy Exist In Sweden Before 1772? / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Four. The Re-Evaluation Of The Representation Of The People And Democracy In Westminster, 1772–1789 / P. Ihalainen -- Chapter Five. Reactions To The Revolutionary Concepts Of Democracy And Popular Sovereignty In Westminster, 1789–1800 / P. Ihalainen -- Conclusion / P. Ihalainen -- Bibliography / P. Ihalainen -- Index Of Persons / P. Ihalainen -- Index Of Subjects / P. Ihalainen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827193703321 |
Ihalainen Pasi | ||
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Springs Of Democracy |
Autore | Ihalainen Pasi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Helsinki, : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (590) |
Soggetto topico |
Europe
European history 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Politics & government Political science & theory Political ideologies |
ISBN | 952-222-929-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti |
Springs Of Democracy
Studia Fennica Historica vol. 24 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910251390803321 |
Ihalainen Pasi | ||
Helsinki, : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The springs of democracy : national and transnational debates on constitutional reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919 / / Pasi Ihalainen |
Autore | Ihalainen Pasi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Helsinki : , : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (586 pages) |
Disciplina | 321.8 |
Collana | Studia Fennica. Historica |
Soggetto topico |
Representative government and representation
Representative government and representation - Finland |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1.Introduction -- 1.1 The reform debates of the revolutionary era 1917-19 in inter- andtransnational comparisons -- 1.2 Towards a comparative and transnational history of political discourse -- 1.3 Discourse-oriented political history based on parliamentary sources -- 1.4 The structure of the analysis -- 2. National backgrounds of constitutional disputes from spring 1917to summer 1919 -- 2.1 The standstill in the British constitutional reform before andduring the war -- 2.2 Universal male suffrage in Germany. Prussian executive power and scepticism about parliamentarism -- 2.3 Prolonged disputes on suffrage and parliamentary government in Sweden -- 2.4 Finland - a grand duchy of the Russian Empire with exceptionally broad suffrage but no parliamentary government -- 3. The spring of democracy in 1917: The new constitutional scenecreated by the prolonged war, the Russian Revolution andthe American intervention -- 3.1 Britain: The wartime situation used to force through a postponedreform -- 3.1.1 A continuing constitutional crisis -- 3.1.2 Creating 'a new Britain' consensually in a time of war and revolution -- 3.1.3 Cautious Labour and Liberal democrats versus patently democratic Conservatives -- 3.1.4 Creating a 'Parliament of the people' while avoiding a 'constitutional revolution' -- 3.1.5 A new Parliament - 'a mirror of the nation' engaging the citizens and placing its trust in the masses -- 3.1.6 The committee stage during a campaign for amendments -- 3.2 Wartime demands for the democratisation and parliamentarisation of Imperial Germany -- 3.2.1 The German polity in a profoundly transformed world -- 3.2.2 Implications of the war, the Russian Revolution andthe British reform for the German constitution -- 3.2.3 The Western democracies and a new democratic order in Germany -- 3.2.4 The role of a 'free' German people and the masses in a new era -- 3.2.5 What would the co-sovereignty of parliaments mean? -- 3.3 Sweden: Renewed reform demands under the threat of revolution -- 3.3.1 The situation created by a repeatedly postponed suffrage reform -- 3.3.2 Building 'dams of ice' or welcoming the spring in the midst of transnational change -- 3.3.3 A global breaking-up of the ice for the forces of democracy? -- 3.3.4 The role of the Swedish people in the reformed polity -- 3.3.5 Should parliamentarism be seen as the established system, an instrument for creating a better society through debate, or a system to be taken over by the people? -- 3.4 Finland: The legitimacy of the parliament deteriorates at the moment of democratisation and parliamentarisation -- 3.4.1 Sovereignty in the former grand duchy: in the parliament, the government or a Russian-style 'democracy'? -- 3.4.2 The international, imperial and national political order changed by the war and revolution -- 3.4.3 International democracy or the vernacular 'rule by the people'? -- 3.4.4 Defining the position of the people within the Finnish polity -- 3.4.5 Prospects for a parliamentary Finland: opposing Social Democratic and bourgeois views -- 4. The autumn of 1917: A completed, a suspended and a partial reform - and a failed reform leading to a civil war -- 4.1 Britain: The rising politisation of democracy -- 4.1.1 A final confrontation on extended suffrage between the two chambers -- 4.1.2 'This Bill is a revolution': The reform in relation to British constitutional history and foreign examples -- 4.1.3 The increasingly contested definition of 'democracy' -- 4.1.4 'Women in Parliament, in Governments': The widening involvement of the people in politics -- 4.1.5 The future of a democratic parliamentary polity after the war -- 4.2 Germany: Democratisation and parliamentarisation come to a halt -- 4.3 Sweden: The introduction of parliamentary government as a safeguard against domestic upheaval -- 4.4 Finland: Discursive struggles over democracy and parliamentarism turn into an attempted revolution -- 4.4.1 The Bolshevik Revolution and the questioned legitimacy of Finland's disputatious new parliament -- 4.4.2 Reforms to be implemented by a national parliament or by an international revolution? -- 4.4.3 The Finnish 'rule by the people' in the shadow of Bolshevism -- 4.4.4 A people divided by class and parliamentary discourse -- 4.4.5 Diminishing trust in parliamentary government escalates the crisis -- 5. The Spring of 1918: Western and Prussian versions of 'parliamentarism' clash in the Swedish and Finnish parliaments -- 5.1 Britain after of the Representation of the People Act -- 5.2 Germany: All quiet on the reform front -- 5.3 Sweden: A parliamentarised ministry introduces its first reform proposal -- 5.3.1 Anti-reformism bolstered by a civil war next door -- 5.3.2 Surrounding wars and revolutions as transnational agents of political change -- 5.3.3 An attempted democratic breakthrough -- 5.3.4 Bypassing the political rights of the Swedish people -- 5.3.5 All parties on the side of parliamentarism - but different kinds of parliamentarism -- 5.4 Finland reconstructed to resemble a little Prussia -- 5.4.1 The attempt to restrict reform by restoring the monarchy -- 5.4.2 A counter-revolution built on an assumed German victory -- 5.4.3 Redescribed rightist or principled centrist democracy - or no democracy at all? -- 5.4.4 Disappointment with the Finnish people or continuing confidence in it -- 5.4.5 Limited debates on parliamentarism in the Rump Parliament -- 6. The autumn of 1918: German, Swedish and Finnish constitutional debates in the face of a democratic turn -- 6.1 Democratic suffrage applied in Britain for the first time -- 6.2 Germany loses the war, introduces parliamentary government and experiences a revolution -- 6.2.1 The course of the German Revolution up to the fall of the Kaiser -- 6.2.2 Comparing the German Revolution with the Bismarckian system and the Finnish counterrevolution -- 6.2.3 Divergent understandings of German democracy -- 6.2.4 The German people as a political agent -- 6.2.5 Crypto-parliamentarism comes into the open -- 6.2.6 The radical phase of the revolution in November and December 1918 -- 6.3 Sweden introduces an electoral reform: No revolution like those in Russia, Finland or Germany -- 6.3.1 A reluctant rightist opposition gives in after the fall of the German monarchy -- 6.3.2 The war and revolution as agents of domestic reform -- 6.3.3 Optimistic and pessimistic visions of a democratic Sweden -- 6.3.4 The relationship between the will of 'the people' and the interests of 'the realm' is problematised -- 6.3.5 Parliamentarism under democratised suffrage -- 6.4 The monarchist majority of the Finnish Rump Parliament in search of a stable polity -- 6.4.1 The strange logic of Finnish constitutional politics in late summer and autumn 1918 -- 6.4.2 A controversy over the excessive transnational influence of Germany -- 6.4.3 Monarchical vs. republican democracy -- 6.4.4 'The will of the people' interpreted for and against a republic -- 6.4.5 Parliamentarism redefined or endangered by the monarchists? -- 7.
The spring of 1919: The beginning of an era of democracy and parliamentarism? -- 7.1 Britain: Parliamentary democracy established or a bureaucratic state reinforced? -- 7.2 The construction of a democratic and parliamentary Germany in the Weimar National Assembly -- 7.2.1 Expert planning for a new constitution -- 7.2.2 A revolution against dictatorship -- 7.2.3 Defining 'the most democratic democracy in the world' -- 7.2.4 'Power in the state belongs to the people' -- 7.2.5 Extolling, limiting and ignoring parliamentarism -- 7.3 Sweden: Adjusting the principles of a future democracy -- 7.3.1 Swedish parties after the suffrage reform -- 7.3.2 Internationalism after war and revolution -- 7.3.3 Further prospects for democracy and parliamentarism -- 7.3.4 Politics of the people in a democratic Sweden -- 7.3.5 A glance across the Gulf of Bothnia -- 7.4 Finland: Moving towards a compromise on a presidential parliamentary republic -- 7.4.1 Re-orienting the polity after the war -- 7.4.2 Rethought international comparisons and transnational connections after the war and the revolutions -- 7.4.3 Searching for a compromise between Socialist, centrist and rightist democracy -- 7.4.4 Popular sovereignty recognised by all but one parliamentary party -- 7.4.5 The remaining limits on parliamentarism -- 8. The entangled parliamentary revolutions of 1917-19: Comparison, discussion and conclusion -- Appendix: Selected key events in national politics -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Newspapers -- Literature -- Abstract -- Subject and Place Index -- Index of Names. |
Altri titoli varianti | Springs Of Democracy |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476881703321 |
Ihalainen Pasi | ||
Helsinki : , : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
The Springs Of Democracy |
Autore | Ihalainen Pasi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Helsinki, : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (590) |
Soggetto topico |
Europe
European history 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Politics & government Political science & theory Political ideologies |
ISBN | 952-222-929-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti |
Springs Of Democracy
Studia Fennica Historica vol. 24 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765717703321 |
Ihalainen Pasi | ||
Helsinki, : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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