{"id":44857,"date":"2025-02-15T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44857"},"modified":"2025-02-15T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:11:14","slug":"democracy-in-modern-europe-a-conceptual-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44857","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Jussi Kurunm\u00e4ki, Jeppe Nevers, and Henk te Velde<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. <em>Democracy in Modern Europe<\/em> surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the Industrial Revolutions of the nineteenth century through both world wars and the rise of welfare states to the present era of the European Union. Exploring individual countries as well as regional dynamics, this volume comprises a tightly organized, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date exploration of a foundational issue in European political and intellectual history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction<br><em>Jussi Kurunm\u00e4ki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te Velde<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 1.<\/strong> \u2018Democracy\u2019 from Book to Life: The Emergence of the Term in Active Political Debate, to 1848<br><em>Joanna Innes and Mark Philp<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 2.<\/strong> Democracy and the Strange Death of Mixed Government in the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain, France and the Netherlands<br><em>Henk te Velde<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 3.<\/strong> Another \u2018Sonderweg\u2019? The Historical Semantics of \u2018Democracy\u2019 in Germany<br><em>J\u00f6rn Leonhard<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 4.<\/strong> Birthplaces of Democracy: The Rhetoric of Democratic Tradition in Switzerland and Sweden<br><em>Jussi Kurunm\u00e4ki and Ir\u00e8ne Herrmann<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 5.<\/strong> Concepts of Democracy from a Russian Perspective: Debates in the Late Imperial Period (1905\u201317)<br><em>Benjamin Beuerle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 6.<\/strong> A Conceptual History of Democracy in Spain since 1800<br><em>Javier Fern\u00e1ndez-Sebasti\u00e1n and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Rosales<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 7.<\/strong> The First World War, the Russian Revolution and Varieties of Democracy in Northwest European Debates<br><em>Pasi Ihalainen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 8.<\/strong> The Edges of Democracy: German, British and American Debates on the Dictatorial Challenges to Democracy in the Interwar Years<br><em>Marcus Llanque<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 9.<\/strong> A Nation Allied with History: Czech Ideas of Democracy, 1890\u20131948<br><em>Peter Bugge<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 10.<\/strong> Democracy in Western Europe after 1945<br><em>Martin Conway<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 11.<\/strong> Political Participation and Democratization in the 1960s: The Concept of Participatory Democracy and its Repercussions<br><em>Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 12.<\/strong> Democracy and European Integration: A Transnational History of the Danish Debate<br><em>Jeppe Nevers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jussi Kurunm\u00e4ki<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Political Science at S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University and the University of Helsinki. He was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeppe Nevers<\/strong> is Professor of History at University of Southern Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Henk te Velde<\/strong> has been Full Professor of Dutch History at Leiden University since 2005. He was previously Full Professor of the History of Political Culture at University of Groningen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>318 pages, bibliog., index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hb \/ Published (June 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pb \/ Not Yet Published (March 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/KurunmakiDemocracy\">https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/KurunmakiDemocracy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kurunmaki_Democracy.jpg?fit=400%2C599&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52664,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52664","url_meta":{"origin":44857,"position":0},"title":"CfP: CONFERENCE OF THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS GROUP, HELSINKI, 19TH\u201321ST AUGUST 2026 (DEADLINE: 30TH APRIL 2026)","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"The annual conference of the History of Concepts Group is held at the University of Helsinki, 19-21 August 2026. 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