Democracy in Modern Europe

Jussi Kurunmäki is Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University and the University of Helsinki. He was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.

• IntroductionJussi Kurunmäki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te VeldeChapter 1. ‘Democracy’ from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848Joanna Innes and Mark PhilpChapter 2. Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the NetherlandsHenk te VeldeChapter 3. Another ‘Sonderweg’? The Historical Semantics of ‘Democracy’ in GermanyJörn LeonhardChapter 4. Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and SwedenJussi Kurunmäki and Irène HerrmannChapter 5. Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905–17)Benjamin BeuerleChapter 6. A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800Javier Fernández-Sebastián and José María RosalesChapter 7. The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European DebatesPasi IhalainenChapter 8. The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar YearsMarcus LlanqueChapter 9. A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890–1948Peter BuggeChapter 10. Democracy in Western Europe after 1945Martin ConwayChapter 11. Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its RepercussionsIngrid Gilcher-HolteyChapter 12. Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish DebateJeppe NeversIndex