Ashgate research companion to the politics of democratization in Europe
Subtitle: concepts and histories
By: edited by Kari Palonen, Tuija Pulkkinen and José María Rosales.
Contributors: Palonen, Kari, 1947-; Pulkkinen, Tuija.; Rosales, José María.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780754672500
Subjects: Democracy -- Europe; Democratization -- Europe; Europe -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Representative democracy : Rosanvallon on the French experience / Frank Ankersmit; title: Direct democracy, ancient and modern / Mogens Herman Hansen; title: Neither ancient nor modern : Rousseau's theory of democracy / Gabriella Silvestrini; title: Representative government or republic? : Sieyès on good government / Christine Fauré; title: Democratic politics and the dynamic of passions / Chantal Mouffe; title: Disobedient state and faithful citizen? : re-locating politics in the age of globalization / Olivia Guaraldo; title: The gendered "subjects" of political representation / Tuija Pulkkinen; title: Political rhetoric and the role of ridicule / Quentin Skinner; title: Political times and the rhetoric of democratization / Kari Palonen; title: Democratization and the instrumentalization of the past / Irène Herrmann; title: The rhetoric of intellectual manifestos from World War I to the War Against Terrorism / Marcus Llanque; title: City squats and women's struggle : feminist political action as public performance / Anna Schober; title: Spectres of totality / Simona Forti; title: Women's partial citizenship : cleavages and conflicts concerning women's citizenship in theory and practice / Claudia Wiesner; title: Gendering political representation? : the debate on gender parity in France / Laure Bereni; title: Political professionalism and representative democracy : common history, irresolvable linkage and inherent tensions / Jens Borchert; title: Democratization and professionalization : the disappearance of the polling officer in Germany and the introduction of computer democracy / Hubertus Buchstein; title: The history of parliamentary democracy in Denmark in comparative perspective / Uffe Jakobsen; title: A long and hard process of democratization : political representation, elections and democracy in contemporary Spain / Gonzalo Capellssn; title: Do political parties matter? : direct democracy and electoral struggles in Switzerland in the nineteenth century / Pierre-Antoine Schorderet; title: The breakthrough of universal suffrage in Finland, 1905-1906 / Jussi Kurunmäki; title: Nationalism, constitutionalism and democratization : the Basque question in perspective / José Marøa Rosales; title: The dis-/appearance of the demos / Meike Schmidt-Gleim.