Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber

by William Selinger

Book Overview

For eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Burke, Constant, and Mill, a powerful representative assembly that freely deliberated and controlled the executive was the deFining institution of a liberal state. Yet these Figures also feared that representative assemblies were susceptible to usurpation, gridlock, and corruption. Parliamentarism was their answer to this dilemma: a constitutional model that enabled a nation to be truly governed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108468853
• ISBN13: 9781108468855
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"