The republican alternative : the Netherlands and Switzerland compared

The republican alternative the Netherlands and Switzerland compared

A comprehensive survey of the constitutional history of the Netherlands and Switzerland, and a remarkable socio-historical commentary on these two remarkably successful democracies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Holenstein, Andre (-), Maissen, Thomas, 1962-, Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press c2008.
Materias:
Representative government and representation > Netherlands.
Representative government and representation > Switzerland.
Republicanism > Netherlands > History.
Republicanism > Switzerland > History.
Netherlands > Politics and government.
Switzerland > Politics and government.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427566006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Dutch and Swiss republics compared / André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen, and Maarten Prak
  • 'The league of the discordant members, ' or, How the old Swiss confederation operated and how it managed to survive for so long / Andreas Würgler
  • Challenges for the republic : coordination and loyalty in the Dutch republic / Maarten Prak
  • Bridging the gap : confessionalisation in Switzerland / Francisca Loetz
  • Was the Dutch republic a Calvinist community? The state, the confessions and culture in the early modern Netherlands / Willem Frijhoff
  • Inventing the sovereign republic : imperial structures, French challenges, Dutch models and the early modern Swiss confederation / Thomas Maissen
  • Turning Swiss? Discord in the Dutch debates / Martin van Gelderen
  • The content, form and function of Swiss and Dutch images of history / Olaf Mörke
  • Republican art? Dutch and Swiss art and art-production compared / Michael North
  • The Dassier workshop in Geneva and the Netherlands : two Calvinist republics expressed in medallic form, 1695-1748 / William Eisler
  • Exporting mercenaries, money and Mennonites : a Swiss diplomatic mission to The Hague, 1710-1715 / Stefan Altorfer-Ong
  • Republican risks : commerce and agriculture in the Dutch republic / Ida Nijenhuis
  • Republican futures : the image of Holland in 18th-century Swiss reform discourse / Béla Kapossy
  • Radical elements and attempted revolutions in the late-18th-century republics / Marc Lerner
  • Debating the republic : a conference report / Daniel Schläppi.

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