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Realities of Representation M. Jansson

Realities of Representation By M. Jansson

Realities of Representation by M. Jansson

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This book offers an examination of the idea of representation and the institutional realities that shaped it in early modern Europe and European America. Contributors demonstrate how a country's history, society, and national experience dictate how representation is realized in political institutions, including parliaments, riksdags and reichstags.

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Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America by M. Jansson

This book offers an examination of the idea of representation and the institutional realities that shaped it in early modern Europe and European America. Contributors demonstrate how a country's history, society, and national experience dictate how representation is realized in political institutions, including parliaments, riksdags and reichstags.

About M. Jansson

MAIJA JANSSON is Director of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and teaches in the Yale University History Department, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Realities of Representation; M.Jansson PART I: ENGLAND The Representation of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain; H.T.Dickinson Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain; P.Seaward Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale, Gordon Turnbull PART II: FRANCE The Unrepresentable French; D. Bell PART III: GERMANY Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire; R.G. Asch PART IV: IRELAND Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland; J.Ohlmeyer PART V: SCANDINAVIA Repression and Representation: Political Culture in Early Modern Scandinavia; K.J.V. Jespersen PART VI: SPAIN An Unbalanced Representation: the Nature and Function of the Cortes of Castile in the Habsburg Period (1538-1698) - J.I.Fortea PART VII: EUROPEAN AMERICA Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern European Empires in America - J.P.Greene Governing a Colony pas commes les autres: the Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest; R.Cook Conclusion: New Approaches to Early Modern Representation; S.Pincus Afterword: Representative Government: How Sure a Thing?; R.Zaller

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NLS9781349536016
9781349536016
1349536016
Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America by M. Jansson
M. Jansson
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2007-06-08
237
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