Political Representation in the Ancien Régime
Joaquim Albareda, "Political Representation in the Ancien Régime "
English | ISBN: 1138335320 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1138335320 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; parliaments and municipalities), from various European territories and finally from a connected and comparative perspective.
The aim is twofold: analyse the different mechanisms of political representation before Liberalism, their strengths and limitations; value the processes of oligarchisation and the possible mismatch between a libertarian model and a reality which was far from its idealised image.
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