Parliamentarism : From Burke to Weber Paperback / softback
by William (University College London) Selinger
Part of the Ideas in Context series
Paperback / softback
Description
For eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Burke, Constant, and Mill, a powerful representative assembly that freely deliberated and controlled the executive was the de?ning institution of a liberal state.
Yet these ?gures also feared that representative assemblies were susceptible to usurpation, gridlock, and corruption.
Parliamentarism was their answer to this dilemma: a constitutional model that enabled a nation to be truly governed by a representative assembly.
O?ering novel interpretations of canonical liberal authors, this history of liberal political ideas suggests a new paradigm for interpreting the development of modern political thought, inspiring fresh perspectives on historical issues from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.
In doing so, Selinger suggests the wider signi?cance of parliament and the theory of parliamentarism in the development of European political thought, revealing how contemporary democratic theory, and indeed the challenges facing representative government today, are historically indebted to classical parliamentarism.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:267 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/06/2020
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- ISBN:9781108468855
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:267 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/06/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108468855
