Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2140983
Coleman A. Dennehy
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2130535
Sara Trovalusci
InCostituzioni allo specchio the author presents a body of work that is the fruit of years of research, and includes some very recent findings, with the aim of offering a comparative analysis of the Italian and French constitutional processes in the postwar period. There are many common themes that support a comparative study: both constitutions were deeply influenced by the values of the resistance, and they were drafted by members of the same political groups, including Catholic centrists, socialists and communists. There are of course some elements that contribute to differences between the two: unlike the Italian constitutional process, for instance, the French required a referendum to pass, and its first draft’s failure to do so resulted in the gathering of a new constitutional assembly. Examining these two documents side by side does not ignore their differences, but rather highlights the key aspects of the Italian democratic rebirth through a side by side comparison with the country whose influence on the peninsula was most notable. In the first chapters the author examines the complex and winding French constitutional process. In particular, he focuses on two issues that were at the forefront of the debate: the necessity to expand the role of the government in the social and economic domains – thus broadening its reach in terms of civil rights – and the equally heartfelt need to reorganize its structure. This came as a result of functional problems the French government had experienced in the 1930s, when an ever growing imbalance had manifested between the legislative and the executive branches, for the benefit of the latter. There were marked differences between the initial proposals and the final draft of the French constitution. This was perhaps the most notable feature of the Fourth Republic, which straddled the line between light and shadow, and between remarkable achievements and many uncertainties. The author offers a positive view of the impressive set of economic, social and administrative reforms which the constitutional assembly had laid out and that were implemented in the following years; as well as of the role undertaken by France in the process of supranational cooperation: in addition to Schuman’s famous declaration in 1950, the contribution of French jurist René Cassin to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights is worthy of mention. Attempts to reorganize the structure of government were less fortunate: the rules and regulations concerning the duties of the Prime Minister, for instance, were the result of difficult negotiations between parties, and as such turned out to be complex and ineffective. Efforts to retain French colonial holdings by inscribing them into the constitution were also destined to fail, as the creation of the French Union soon became unsustainable due to its underlying imperial spirit.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2137225
W. Marzec
ABSTRACT This article seeks to explore the ideal of parliament nurtured by various political actors in the Russian-controlled Kingdom of Poland, up to the formation of the Polish nation state after the interim German occupation. Spanned between the legacy of the noble Sejms and radical democratic ideas for future Poland, the cultural imagination of parliamentarism faced its imperfect embodiment in the existing imperial assemblies – above all, the Russian Duma. Drawing from an extensive collection of political leaflets, press of various profiles and Russian administrative sources, I demonstrate the entangled, lived relationship between parliament and revolution, by no means opposite concepts in the global wave of constitutional revolutions. The parliamentary ideal served to renegotiate the arrangements of imperial social space in the direction of national self-assertion and perpetuated social practices conductive to future democratic arrangements. The actors involved demonstrated ambiguous potentials of various forms of national representation. These experiences and considerations had grave consequences in the critical juncture of the revolutionary sequence leading to the emergence of the Polish nation state – for the time being, in a majoritarian parliamentary form.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2150364
Kari Palonen
ABSTRACT This article consists of ex post methodological reflections on the procedures and practices that I applied in my monograph Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff: Perspektiven aus den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestags (Leverkusen, 2021). The book analyses through 18 parliamentary terms the conceptualization of politics in German Bundestag plenary debates from 1949 to 2017. The book was an illustration of my long-term aim of combining political theorizing with the empirical analysis of debate. In writing the book, my guiding idea was to apply Ludwig Wittgenstein’s point, that the meaning of a concept lies in its use, to an analysis of how parliamentary debates open a perspective on the conceptualization of politics closer to ‘political life itself’, to quote Quentin Skinner. Conversely, I also wanted to discuss how a focus on politics as a concept helps us to improve our understanding of the parliamentary style of politics, in which parliamentary voting forms the last step of a debate. To this purpose, the book assumes that every item on a parliamentary agenda has a political aspect to be debated. The book makes use of two interpretative approaches: the rhetoric of topoi and a typology of politics as an activity.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2139889
Andreu Paneque
ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of political professionalization on descriptive representation and the principal-agent problems in the European micro-states and six large-scale democracies since 1980. By doing so, the article revisits an ongoing debate about the consequences of having a political elite professionalized. Using an original data set consisting of the individual and legislative professionalization characteristics of twelve European sovereign states and the aggregate socio-demographic characteristics of parliamentarians at national parliaments, this article shows that while legislative professionalization is a determinant for descriptive representation, politicians’ professionalization is a negative determinant for political responsiveness and accountability. Moreover, this article underlines population size as a determinant for the descriptive representation of certain socio-demographic characteristics and it describes the null effect of population size on the negative causal relation of politicians’ professionalization on political responsiveness and accountability.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2130529
Á. Foley
{"title":"Ruling fourteenth-century England: essays in honour of Christopher Given-Wilson","authors":"Á. Foley","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2022.2130529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2022.2130529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"43 1","pages":"341 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80730930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2130517
R. Eagles
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{"title":"Visualizing protestant monarchy: ceremony, art and politics after the glorious revolution (1689-1714)","authors":"R. Eagles","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2022.2130517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2022.2130517","url":null,"abstract":"a","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"1 1","pages":"345 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72588092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02606755.2022.2158654
{"title":"Helen Maud Cam Travel Grants for Scholars to attend the Rome-Naples conference of ICHRPI/CIHAE 2023","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2022.2158654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2022.2158654","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"113 1","pages":"366 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78534126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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