Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber

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William Selinger’s Parliamentarism: from Burke to Weber aims redefine our understanding of what it means live in a free state. It displaces the concept “democracy” as (supposedly) central concern for range canonical nineteenth-century authors, and demonstrates that another concept, “parliamentarism”, stood at core many European liberal writers’ quest liberty. Selinger shows Montesquieu’s description “balanced” English constitution protected by system checks balances was challenged number contemporary observers British politics (including Jean-Louis de Lolme Edmund Burke), who elaborated rival accounts emphasizing instead dominant position powerful representative assembly which mirrored nation represented. The resulting doctrine book through series case studies include Tocqueville, Mill Weber, subsequently became “dominant paradigm state across Europe” (p. 9) nineteenth century.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Political Theory

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1741-2730', '1474-8851']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885120937574