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Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demonstrations of 1995–1997 (2019)
Kaarkoski, Miina (2019). Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demonstrations of 1995–1997. In Augusteijn, Joost; Hijzen, Constant; de Vries, Mark Leon (Eds.) Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries, Palgrave Studies in Political History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 189-211. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_8
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Kaarkoski, Miina
Parent publication: Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries
Parent publication editors: Augusteijn, Joost; Hijzen, Constant; de Vries, Mark Leon
ISBN: 978-3-030-20122-7
eISBN: 978-3-030-20123-4
Journal or series: Palgrave Studies in Political History
Publication year: 2019
Pages range: 189-211
Number of pages in the book: 297
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication: Cham
Publication country: Switzerland
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20123-4_8
Open Access: Publication channel is not openly available
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66229
Abstract
In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged conceptions of parliament’s task of representation, public debate and legitimate decision-making in different historical circumstances. One such crucial phase in re-evaluating and redefining conceptions of democracy in Germany was the second half of the 1990s, when a vigorous anti-nuclear movement arose. In the German federal parliament, members had to explain their understandings of German democracy. The tradition of liberal, representative democracy was in a conflict with the demands of more direct citizens’ involvement in political decision-making. Both sides of the conflict laid claims to competing forms of the concept ‘democracy’ as their source of legitimacy.
Keywords: political history; democracy; representative democracy; parliamentarism; direct democracy; environmental movements; legitimacy
Free keywords: Germany; Bundestag
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- Supra- and Transnational Foreign Policy versus National Parliamentary Government, 1014-2014
- Ihalainen, Pasi
- Academy of Finland
Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2019
JUFO rating: 3