The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe: Concepts and Histories

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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
On the Politics, Concepts and Histories of European Democratization
PART I: CONCEPTS
	1 Representative Democracy: Rosanvallon on the French Experience
	2 Direct Democracy, Ancient and Modern
	3 Neither Ancient nor Modern: Rousseau’s Theory of Democracy
	4 Representative Government or Republic? Sieyès on Good Government
	5 Democratic Politics and the Dynamics of Passions
	6 Disobedient State and Faithful Citizen? Re-locating Politics in the Age of Globalization
	7 The Gendered ‘Subjects’ of Political Representation
PART II: PRACTICES
	8 Political Rhetoric and the Role of Ridicule
	9 Political Times and the Rhetoric of Democratization
	10 Democratization and the Instrumentalization of the Past
	11 The Rhetoric of Intellectual Manifestos from the First World War to the war against Terrorism
	12 City Squats and Women’s Struggle: Feminist Political Action as Public Performance
	13 Spectres of Totality
PART III: CHANGES
	14 Women’s Partial Citizenship: Cleavages and Conflicts Concerning Women’s Citizenship in Theory and Practice
	15 Gendering Political Representation? The Debate on Gender Parity in France
	16 Political Professionalism and Representative Democracy: Common History, Irresolvable Linkage and Inherent Tensions
	17 Democratization and Professionalization: The Disappearance of the Polling Officer in Germany and the Introduction of Computer Democracy
	18 The History of Parliamentary Democracy in Denmark in Comparative Perspective
PART IV: CONTEXTS
	19 A Long and Hard Process of Democratization: Political Representation, Elections and Democracy in Contemporary Spain
	20 Do Political Parties Matter? Direct Democracy and Electoral Struggles in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century
	21 The Breakthrough of Universal Suffrage in Finland, 1905–1906
	22 Nationalism, Constitutionalism and Democratization: The Basque Question in Perspective
	23 The Dis-/Appearance of the Demos
Postscript: The Past, Present and Future of Democratization
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