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• Palonen, Kari[Herausgeber]
• Rosales, José María[Herausgeber]

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Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives [electronic resource]

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1st ed

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Cover; Parliamentarism and Democratic. Theory Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Parliamentary Democracy; Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory; Approaching Parliamentary Politics; The Changing Uses of Parliamentarism; Debating Democratic Theory and Performance; References; 1 How Women's Suffrage Was Devalued: The Burden of Analytical Categories and the Conceptual History of Democracy; Introduction; How Women's Suffrage Got Lost in Classes
• Old and New Democracies in Studies of the Interwar Crisis of DemocracyOn Double Standards; On Anachronisms; Concluding Remarks; References; 2 Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies as Parliamentary Bodies: Legitimating Politics through the Adoption of the House of Commons Procedure; The Union Societies as 'Parliamentary Bodies'; Two Types of Union Debates; The Politics of Debate: Seeking Political Legitimacy Through Revision of the Rules; Conclusion; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; 3 'Advanced Liberalism' and the Politics of Reform in Victorian Parliamentary Debates of the 1860s
• A 'Small Band of Radicals': 'Advanced Liberalism' in Academic LiteratureReform and Political Stability: The Contested Meaning of'Advanced Liberalism'; The Janus Face of 'Advanced Liberalism'; Concluding Remarks; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; 4 What Matters in Social Sciences and Political Debates: Max Weber's Contributions to Parliamentary Studies During World War I; Objectivity in Social Sciences: A Matter of Ongoing Controversy; Objectivity (Sachlichkeit) in Parliamentary Debates: A Matter of Responsibility; Selection of Political Leaders; Accountability of Political Leaders
• ConclusionReferences; 5 Contrasting Complaints about Parliamentarism in Western Europe (1918-39); Introduction; Professional Politicians: An Incompetent and Untrustworthy Bunch; Parties with Too Much Power and Too Few Principles; Universal Suffrage: The Root of All Evil; An Inherently Flawed System; Conclusion; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; 6 Parliamentary Oversight in Foreign Policy: The Momentum of the US Congress in the 1970s; Parliamentary Oversight in a Presidential System; The Correct Interpretation of the Constitution vs. Historical Precedents
• The US Congress Move to Reassert its Powers in Foreign PolicyContinue the Momentum; Concluding Remarks; Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; 7 Can Deliberative Mini-Publics Improve the Quality of Democratic Decision-Making?; Introduction; Deliberation in Representative Bodies and its Obstacles; What Are Deliberative Mini-Publics?; When Should Deliberative Mini-Publics be Used?; Suggestions for Institutional Designs; Concluding Remarks; References; 8 Democracy and Compromise: Beyond a Deliberative Approach; Compromise: Basic Features
• Deliberation and Substantive Fairness: Preliminary Remarks
• The authors deal with the place of parliamentary politics in democracy. Apparently a truism, parliamentarism is in fact a missing research object in democratic theory, and a devalued institutional reference in democratic politics. Yet the parliamentary culture of politics historically explains the rise and fall of modern democracies. By exploring democracy from the vantage point of parliamentary politics, the book advances a novel research perspective. Aimed at revising current debates on parliamentary politics, democratization and democratic theory, the authors argue the role of the parliamentary culture of politics in democracy, highlighting the argumentative, debating experience of politics to recast both some of democratic theory's normative assumptions and real democracies' reform potential.
• "Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory" is a critically important work of exceptional scholarship and very higly recommended for academic library Political Sicence reference collections in general, and Parliamentary Democracy supplemental studies reading lists in particular. Midwest Book Review 1/2016
• Kari Palonen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Editor of Redescriptions and Co-founder of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group José María Rosales is Associate Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Málaga, Spain, and board member of Concepta, International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought
• English