The Ashgate research companion to the politics of democratization in Europe concepts and histories / [Texte imprimé] : [edited by] Kari Palonen, Tuija Pulkkinen, José Maria Rosales - Farnham ; Burlington : Ashgate, cop. 2008 - 1 vol. (XIV-421 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm - Ashgate research companions . - Ashgate research companions (Ashgate, Farnham) .

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Representative democracy : Rosanvallon on the French experience / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Direct democracy, ancient and modern / Mogens Herman Hansen -- Neither ancient nor modern : Rousseau's theory of democracy / Gabriella Silvestrini -- Representative government or republic? : Sieyès on good government / Christine Fauré -- Democratic politics and the dynamic of passions / Chantal Mouffe -- Disobedient state and faithful citizen? : re-locating politics in the age of globalization / Olivia Guaraldo -- The gendered "subjects" of political representation / Tuija Pulkkinen -- Political rhetoric and the role of ridicule / Quentin Skinner -- Political times and the rhetoric of democratization / Kari Palonen -- Democratization and the instrumentalization of the past / Irène Herrmann -- The rhetoric of intellectual manifestos from the first World War to the War Against Terrorism / Marcus Llanque -- City squats and women's struggle : feminist political action as public performance / Anna Schober -- Spectres of totality / Simona Forti -- Women's partial citizenship : cleavages and conflicts concerning women's citizenship in theory and practice / Claudia Wiesner -- Gendering political representation? : the debate on gender parity in France / Laure Bereni -- Political professionalism and representative democracy : common history, irresolvable linkage and inherent tensions / Jens Borchert -- Democratization and professionalization : the disappearance of the polling officer in Germany and the introduction of computer democracy / Hubertus Buchstein -- The history of parliamentary democracy in Denmark in comparative perspective / Uffe Jakobsen -- A long and hard process of democratization : political representation, elections and democracy in contemporary Spain / Gonzalo Capellán de Miguel -- Do political parties matter? : direct democracy and electoral struggles in Switzerland in the nineteenth century / Pierre-Antoine Schorderet -- The breakthrough of universal suffrage in Finland, 1905-1906 / Jussi Kurunmäki -- Nationalism, constitutionalism and democratization : the Basque question in perspective / José María Rosales -- The dis-/appearance of the demos / Meike Schmidt-Gleim

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