Political Representation: Tensions between Parliament and the People from the Age of Revolutions to the 21st Century


Main funder

Funder's project number345111


Funds granted by main funder (€)

  • 660 000,00


Funding program


Project timetable

Project start date01/09/2021

Project end date31/12/2024


Summary

Using the concepts of representation and popular sovereignty, we investigate historical and present-day constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of parliamentary legitimacy in political discourse. We analyse the evolution of parliamentary sovereignty and representation from the Age of Revolutions to today empirically, focusing on the language of the historical sources. To do this, we use corpora to search digitised parliamentary records from Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden to locate confrontations for contextualising close reading. The research provides historical perspectives on present-day tensions between popular sovereignty and parliamentary representation, comparing crises of representation with more and less successful attempts to legitimise parliamentary democracy.


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Profiling areaSchool of Wellbeing (University of Jyväskylä JYU) JYU.Well


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