The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution

Ihalainen, Pasi

doi:10.1080/03468755.2014.987161

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“…A contrasting perspective was advocated by the leftist Dr. Fredrik Lagerroth, who described the history of the Swedish constitution as a long-term struggle between autocracy and constitutionalism. From Lagerroth's perspective, Sweden was a democracy of ancient origin in which the Gustavian Age had merely been a short pause (Ihalainen 2015). In particular, the Lagerrothian perspective would influence arguments on the further democratization of the Swedish constitution.…”

Section: Debating Democracy After the First World Warmentioning

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History Politics and (Re)forming the Future: Visions of Democracy and the Category of the Utopian

Friberg

2020

Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory

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During the First World War, the legitimacy of established polities was challenged throughout Europe. Not only did the war affect the great powers; smaller nations that were not directly involved also experienced a resurgence of constitutional disputes. While these controversies have been analyzed as conceptual struggles, this article-inspired by Reinhart Koselleck's theory of historical times-suggests that they can also be understood as ideological struggles over temporalities. The article examines the Swedish parliamentary debates on further democratization after the introduction of universal suffrage. In this context, there were ideological struggles over how the historical development should be interpreted and differing visions of how the future should be shaped, resulting in varying understandings of what was required of the present. In the conclusion, the article addresses the Koselleckian categorization of temporal experience and argues that there is a need for another category, one that lies beyond calculable prognoses and predictions: the category of the utopian.

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Section: Debating Democracy After the First World Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

History Politics and (Re)forming the Future: Visions of Democracy and the Category of the Utopian

Friberg

2020

Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory

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“…In the meantime, the Swedish Diet, especially in the so-called late Age of Liberty (1766-72), has sometimes been seen as a herald of modern popular sovereignty and representative democracy (for historiography, see Ihalainen 2010, ch. 3 and 477-84;Ihalainen & Sundin 2011;Ihalainen 2015). The Swedish version of representative government was based on the electoral rights of an exceptionally broad proportion of the population, the free peasant estate covering, in principle, a fourth of the male population alongside the noble, clerical and burgher estates.…”

Section: Swedish Estate Representationmentioning

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From estate representation to the representation of the people and the nation in the Age of Revolutions

Ihalainen¹,

Haaparinne²

2020

Research Handbook on Political Representation

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“…53 As Pasi Ihalainen has shown, many Social Democratic MPs referred to an ancient democratic tradition during parliamentary debates. 54 The Liberals sought to historicise their demand for parliamentary government, which in some cases led to interpretations that drew on the idea of ancient democracy. This view gained support from the political scientist Fredrik Lagerroth, according to whom contemporary demands for parliamentarism were based on the oldest known organisation of Swedish society, which was 'decisively democratic'.…”

Section: A Democratic Tradition In Sweden and In Finlandmentioning

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Democracy both young and old: Finland, Sweden and the interwar crisis of democracy

Kurunmäki

2019

J Mod Eur Hist

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It is often pointed out in the literature of democratisation and the breakdown of democracy that old democracies have been able to stand against the threat of totalitarian and extremist political doctrines better than young ones. This observation has usually been based on the existence of solid political institutions, certain class structures, and the legitimacy of a political system. The focus of this article is on the rhetorical role that the division between ‘old’ and ‘young’ or ‘new’ democracies played during the interwar crisis of democracy. By focusing on the cases of Finland and Sweden, which have been described as a young democracy and an old democracy respectively in the literature on democratisation, the study directs attention to the ways in which the age of democracy has been produced in order to defend democratic institutions against totalitarian doctrines and practices. The article thus contributes to the conceptual history of democracy and helps explaining why Finland managed to maintain its democratic political institutions as one of the few new independent states that were born during and just after the First World War.

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The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

History Politics and (Re)forming the Future: Visions of Democracy and the Category of the Utopian

History Politics and (Re)forming the Future: Visions of Democracy and the Category of the Utopian

From estate representation to the representation of the people and the nation in the Age of Revolutions

Democracy both young and old: Finland, Sweden and the interwar crisis of democracy

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