Introduction
Jussi Kurunmaki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te Velde
Chapter 1. 'Democracy' from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848
Joanna Innes and Mark Philp
Chapter 2. Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the Netherlands
Henk te Velde
Chapter 3. Another 'Sonderweg'? The Historical Semantics of 'Democracy' in Germany
Joern Leonhard
Chapter 4. Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and Sweden
Jussi Kurunmaki and Irene Herrmann
Chapter 5. Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905-17)
Benjamin Beuerle
Chapter 6. A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800
Javier Fernandez-Sebastian and Jose Maria Rosales
Chapter 7. The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European Debates
Pasi Ihalainen
Chapter 8. The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Years
Marcus Llanque
Chapter 9. A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890-1948
Peter Bugge
Chapter 10. Democracy in Western Europe after 1945
Martin Conway
Chapter 11. Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its Repercussions
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
Chapter 12. Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish Debate
Jeppe Nevers
Index