Political Representation: Tensions between Parliament and the People from the Age of Revolutions to the 21st Century
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Funder's project number: 345111
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 660 000,00
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Project start date: 01/09/2021
Project end date: 31/12/2024
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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Related publications and other outputs
- ‘Democracy’ and ‘People’s Power’ in the Finnish Parliament : the Struggle between Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy (2023) Hyvärinen, Matti; et al.; A1; OA
- The last politeia? : A short(er) history of liberal democracy (2023) Bonin, Hugo; O4; OA
- Un débat européen (2023) Bonin, Hugo; et al.; E1
- Building and Testing a Comparative Interface on Northwest European Historical Parliamentary Debates : Relative Term Frequency Analysis of British Representative Democracy (2022) Ihalainen, Pasi; et al.; A4; OA
- Parliaments as Meeting Places for Political Concepts (2021) Ihalainen, Pasi; E1; OA