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Foundations of Democracy in the European Union
From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament
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Foundations of Democracy in the European Union
From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament
About this book
This book offers a new approach to the study of European democracy showing how this has developed through key episodes in the long history of the process: precursors in the Low Countries; the founding of British parliamentary then American federal democracy; post-revolutionary France; post-war Germany; the European Parliament. It examines the significance of each episode in the development of national or federal democracy and concludes with a positive assessment of the prospects of liberal democracy. This is an important book for political scientists, historians and others concerned with the development of democracy in Europe and beyond.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1 The Development of European Democracy
- 2 Mediaeval Flanders and the Seeds of Modern Democracy
- 3 Republican Freedom against Monarchical Absolutism: The Dutch Experience in the Seventeenth Century
- 4 William III, the Glorious Revolution and the Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Britain
- 5 The United States Constitution and its Roots in British Political Thought and Tradition
- 6 Proudhon and Anti-jacobin Federalism
- 7 Anglo-saxon Influences and the Development of German Democracy after World War Two
- 8 The European Parliament and the Idea of European Representative Government
- 9 Foundations for Democracy in the European Union
- Notes
- Index