Description
| Summary: | This book on the pre-history of democratization shows how and why more modern attitudes to democracy started to emerge in the late eighteenth century. Focusing on the language of parliamentarians, the author reconstructs and compares debates on the political role and representation of the people in Britain and Sweden. His analysis demonstrates not only the persistence of the classical, pejorative, conception of democracy but also the gradual re-evaluation of the notion prior to the French Revolution. The author analyses the clash between British and French conceptions of democracy as well as t.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 530 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-515) and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004183940
9004183949
9789004183360
9004183361 |
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| ISSN: | 1873-6548 ; |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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