Foundations of Democracy in the European Union

From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament
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This book offers a new approach to the study of European democracy showing how this has developed through key episodes in the long history of the process: precursors in the Low Countries; the founding of British parliamentary then American federal democracy; post-revolutionary France; post-war Germany; the European Parliament. It examines the significance of each episode in the development of national or federal democracy and concludes with a positive assessment of the prospects of liberal democracy. This is an important book for political scientists, historians and others concerned with the development of democracy in Europe and beyond.

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  • ISBN13 9780333982716
  • Released 1999
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Elektronisk medie
  • Edition 1
  • Language English