Parliamentarism - From Burke to Weber

A revisionist interpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political ideas, including novel readings of canonical authors such as Burke and Mill.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The eighteenth-century House of Commons; 2. Edmund Burke's theory of parliamentary politics; 3. The French Revolution and the liberal parliamentary turn; 4. Reinventing parliamentarism: the significance of Benjamin Constant; 5. Democracy in America, parliamentarism in France: Tocqueville's unconventional parliamentary liberalism; 6. John Stuart Mill and the Victorian theory of Parliament; Conclusion.

About the author

William Selinger is Lecturer in European History, 1700–1850 at University College London. He is a historian of political thought whose work has focused on the development of modern theories of democracy, representative government, and the state. His articles have appeared in a variety of political theory and intellectual history journals. Prior to publication, this book was awarded the Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Award, 2017.

Product details

• Authors: William Selinger, William (University College London) Selinger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108475747
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47574-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies