Parliament and Parliamentarism

Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His many publications include his most recent book The Springs of Democracy: National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917–1919 (2017). He is a board member of the research network EuParl.net.

“The focus on representation, sovereignty, responsibility and deliberation offers a lot: the book convincingly demonstrates how these concepts from as early as seventeenth-century Britain recur time and time again in political controversies over what parliament is or should be. Thanks to this specific approach, the quality of the case studies and the coherence between them are significant.” · Parliament, Estates and Representation“… maintaining a high level of clarity, this title provides insight not only into political history, but also the attitudes of those who contribute to it.” · Res Rhetorica“[The editors] definitely succeeded in anchoring parliament and parliamentarism in Conceptual History, as well as fulfilling the claim to present surveys. Without exception, the volume offers excellent contributions that combine masterly overviews, well-chosen empirical findings and case studies with inspiring theoretical deliberations.” · Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen“The great challenge for a book of this kind is to maintain cohesion among a multiplicity of authors and perspectives, and in this it has been entirely successful. Its overall framework of four principles that distinguish parliamentarism is clear and convincing, and its openness to different methodological approaches enables contributors to transcend traditional disciplinary limits.” · Olivier Rozenberg, Sciences Po“This collection offers an impressive historical and geographical sweep, covering a range of conceptual issues. The individual chapters provide both breadth and depth, and they are well situated within wider theoretical concerns.” · Alan Finlayson, University of East Anglia

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Parliament as a Conceptual NexusPasi Ihalainen, Cornelia Ilie and Kari PalonenPART I: THE CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTSChapter 1. European Parliamentary Experiences from a Conceptual Historical PerspectivePasi IhalainenChapter 2. Key Concepts for Parliament in Britain (1640–1800)Paul Seaward and Pasi IhalainenChapter 3. Discussing the First Age of French Parliamentarism (1789–1914)Jean Garrigues and Eric AnceauChapter 4. From Monarchical Constitutionalism to a Parliamentary Republic: Concepts of Parliamentarism in Germany since 1818Andreas Biefang and Andreas SchulzChapter 5. Passion and Reason: Modern Parliaments in the Low CountriesMarnix Beyen and Henk te VeldeChapter 6. The Formation of Parliamentarism in the Nordic Countries from the Napoleonic Wars to the First World WarUffe Jakobsen and Jussi KurunmäkiChapter 7. The Conceptual History of the Russian State DumaIrène HerrmannPART II: THE DISCOURSE AND RHETORIC OF MODERN PARLIAMENTSChapter 8. Parliamentary Discourse and Deliberative RhetoricCornelia IlieChapter 9. Rhetoric, Parliament and the Monarchy in Pre-revolutionary EnglandMarkku PeltonenChapter 10. French Parliamentary Discourse, 1789–1914Thomas BouchetChapter 11. German Parliamentary Discourse since 1848 from a Linguistic Point of ViewArmin BurkhardtChapter 12. Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Rhetoric since the Nineteenth Century: the Case of Romania and PolandCornelia Ilie and Cezar OrnatowskiPART III: PARLIAMENT AND PARLIAMENTARISM IN POLITICAL THEORYChapter 13. Political Theories of ParliamentarismKari PalonenChapter 14. Thinking of Politics in a Parliamentary Manner: Perspectives on the Conceptual History of ParliamentarismKari PalonenChapter 15. Theories of Representative Government and Parliamentarism in Italy from the 1840s to the 1920sDavid Ragazzoni and Nadia UrbinatiChapter 16. Parliamentarism and Democracy in German Political Theory since 1848Dirk Jörke and Marcus LlanqueChapter 17. Parliamentarism in Spanish Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: from Constitutional Liberalism to Democratic ParliamentarismJosé María RosalesChapter 18. Towards a Political Theory of EU ParliamentarismTeija Tiilikainen and Claudia WiesnerEpilogue: Some Challenges to ParliamentarismKari PalonenIndex