Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism : Parliamentary Democracy in an Age of Fragmentation / Giovanni Rizzoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rizzoni, Giovanni, author.

Series:

Parliamentary Democracy in Europe.

Parliamentary Democracy in Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial power.

Representative government and representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Hart Publishing, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge. The book argues that the very meaning of modern parliamentarism cannot properly be understood without considering the cognitive value which is inherent in the representative function discharged by parliaments, vis-a-vis the political community. It does so by studying the 'encyclopaedic patterns' underlying modern parliamentarism. Exploring the concept from ancient times to modernity, it addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between knowledge and democratic decision-making. This is a truly innovative book; challenging, provocative and asking crucial questions of how parliaments work and legislate.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Introduction: Political Representation and Knowledge

1. Origins and Features of Modern Encyclopaedism

I. The Encyclopaedia as an Invention of Modernity

II. Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism

III. From Chambers' Cyclopaedia to Diderot and D'Alambert's Encyclopédie

IV. The National Encyclopaedias of the Nineteenth Century

V. The Nineteenth-Century Encyclopaedism between Philosophy, Pedagogy and Literature

VI. Encyclopaedism and Parliamentarism and their Parallel Transformations

2. Encyclopaedic Parliamentarism in the Nineteenth Century

I. Parliaments and Political Representation in the Nineteenth Century

II. Parliaments and the Bourgeois Public Sphere

III. The Birth of Modern Parliamentary Representation between Publicness and Separateness

IV. Parliaments as Political Theatres of the Nation

V. Parliaments as Cognitive Maps of Politics

VI. Parliamentary Time between Cyclicity and Syncronicity

VII. The Era of Generalist Politicians: The Centrality of Parliamentary Oratory

VIII. Parliamentary Libraries

IX. The Great Treaties on Parliamentary Procedures

X. Parliamentary Encyclopaedism and the Rationality of the Legislator

XI. The Crisis of the Nineteenth-Century Encyclopaedic Parliament

3. Encyclopaedic Parliamentarism in the Twentieth Century

I. Major Transformations in Twentieth-Century Parliaments

II. Party Parliaments

III. Parliamentary Committees and the Professionalisation of Politics

IV. Bicameralism as a Resource for the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia

V. The New Knowledge Systems Supporting Parliaments

VI. Legislative Rationality in the Twentieth Century

VII. The Basic Structure of the Twentieth-Century Parliamentary Encyclopaedia

4. Crisis and Transformation of the Encyclopaedic Model.

I. Encyclopaedias in the Twentieth Century between Crisis and Innovation

II. Deconstruction of the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia

III. 'Resistance' (and Resilience) of the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia

Conclusions: The New Parliamentary Encyclopaedia: Combining Specialised Knowledge with Common Sense

I. Old and New Encyclopaedism

II. Building 'Wikipedian Parliaments'

III. Developing the 'Federalising Capacity' of Parliaments

IV. Opening an Instituent Perspective in the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia

V. Memory, Reason and Imagination for the New Parliamentary Encyclopaedia

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509963935

1509963936

9781509963928

1509963928

9781509963942

1509963944

OCLC:

1418897774