In the king's shadow
Subtitle: the political anatomy of democratic representation
By: Philip Manow ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Contributors: Camiller, Patrick
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780745647661; 9780745647678
Subjects: Representative government and representation; Repräsentative Demokratie; Democracy; Monarchy; History; Monarchie
Other titles: Political anatomy of democratic representation
Work titles: Im Schatten des Königs
Notes: First published in German as Im Schatten des Königs, by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, c2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [126]-141) and index.

The translation was funded by Geisteswissenschaften Internation - Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany.
Table of contents: title: 1. Does the republic have a body?; title: 2. Parliament as body politic - house seating plans: Does democracy have no imagery? ; Basic parliamentary seating plans and how they came about ; The shadow of the king's body ; The parliamentarization of divine right doctrine; title: 3. Parliament as body politic - immunity, publicity, proportionality and discontinuity: Republican body-snatching ; 'A degree of sanctity' - parliamentary immunity ; The parliamentary puppet can speak! - the question of public debate ; 'A recognizable likeness of the populace' - parliamentary proportionality ; Le parlement ne meurt jamais? Parliamentary discontinuity ; Farewell to the body of the people?; title: 4. Democratic bodies/despotic bodies: Deputies and doubles ; In corpore/in effigie ; Hot and cold representation ; Violent/thaumaturgic ; Dignitas/humanitas ; Disenchantment/re-enchantment.