Agents of the People
Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in British and Swedish Parliamentary and Public Debates, 1734–1800
Biographical note
Pasi Ihalainen, Ph.D. (1999), is a Professor of General History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His previous books include The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1999) on political parties and Protestant Nations Redefined (2005) on the modernization of national identities.
Readership
All those interested in the history of democratization, historians of political thought, political culture and political debate; Enlightenment scholars; political scientists who study democracy, popular sovereignty, representation, parliaments, modernization and conceptual change.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. British and Swedish Parliamentary Debates in a Comparative Study of Political Vocabularies
2. Variations in British Parliamentary Conceptions of the People, 1734–1771
3. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty and Representative Democracy Already Exist in Sweden Before 1772?
4. The Re-Evaluation of the Presentation of the People and Democracy in Westminster, 1772–1789
5. Reactions to the Revolutionary Concepts of Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in Westminster, 1789–1800
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. British and Swedish Parliamentary Debates in a Comparative Study of Political Vocabularies
2. Variations in British Parliamentary Conceptions of the People, 1734–1771
3. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty and Representative Democracy Already Exist in Sweden Before 1772?
4. The Re-Evaluation of the Presentation of the People and Democracy in Westminster, 1772–1789
5. Reactions to the Revolutionary Concepts of Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in Westminster, 1789–1800
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
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