From the Contents: Part I: The Uses of Parliamentarism Parliamentary Emergency Powers: A Political Chimera? Questions in the House: Parliamentary Politics and the Rhetoric of 'Question-Time' Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies as Parliamentary Bodies 'Advanced Liberalism' and the Politics of Reform in Victorian Parliamentary Culture The Mandate in the Parliament Varieties of Anti-Parliamentarism in Europe Revising the Aggregative Role of Parliaments in a Fragmented World Part II: Debating Democratic Theory and Performance The Rhetorical Use of 'Parliamentarism' and the Interwar Crisis of Democracy Democracy and Compromise: Why Consensus is not Democratic? The Legitimacy Politics of the Theory of Aleatory Democracy The Paradox of Democratic Selection: Is Lottery Better than Voting? Can Deliberative Mini-Publics Help to Improve the Standards of Representative Democracy?
Kari Palonen is a Professor of Political Science at the
University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Editor of Redescriptions and
Co-founder of the History of Political and Social Concepts
Group.
José María Rosales is an Associate Professor of Moral and
Political Philosophy at the University of Málaga, Spain, and board
member of Concepta, International Research School in Conceptual
History and Political Thought.
"Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory" is a critically important
work of exceptional scholarship and very higly recommended for
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