Democracy in Modern Europe A Conceptual History - Kurunmaeki, Jussi (Berghahn Books, 2025)
Introduction; Jussi Kurunmaeki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te Velde; Chapter 1. 'Democracy' from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848; Joanna Innes and Mark Philp; Chapter 2. Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the Netherlands; Henk te Velde; Chapter 3. Another 'Sonderweg'? The Historical Semantics of 'Democracy' in Germany; Joern Leonhard; Chapter 4. Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and Sweden; Jussi Kurunmaeki and Irene Herrmann; Chapter 5. Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905-17); Benjamin Beuerle; Chapter 6. A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800; Javier Fernandez-Sebastian and Jose Maria Rosales; Chapter 7. The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European Debates; Pasi Ihalainen; Chapter 8. The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Years; Marcus Llanque; Chapter 9. A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890-1948; Peter Bugge; Chapter 10. Democracy in Western Europe after 1945; Martin Conway; Chapter 11. Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its Repercussions; Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey; Chapter 12. Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish Debate; Jeppe Nevers; Index