Foundations of Democracy in the European Union: From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament

Pinder, John (EDT)/ Margriet, HRH Princess of The Netherlands (FRW)

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/06発売）

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 商品コード 9780333774700
• DDC分類 321.8094

Full Description

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.

Contents

Notes on Contributors Preface Foreword; HRH Princess Margriet of The Netherlands The Development of European Democracy; J.Pinder Mediaeval Flanders and the Seeds of Modern Democracy; R.C.Van Caenegem Republican Freedom against Monarchical Absolutism: The Dutch Experience in the Seventeenth Century; E.H.Kossman William III, the Glorious Revolution and the Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Britain; J.I.Israel The United States Constitution and its Roots in British Political Thought and Tradition; C.Bonwick Proudhon and Anti-Jacobin Federalism; B.Voyenne Anglo-Saxon Influences and the Development of German Democracy after World War Two; A.Glees The European Parliament and the Idea of European Representative Government; R.Corbett Foundations for Democracy in the European Union; J.Pinder Index