European Democracy History--From Montesquieu to Kelsen

Author: (Italian) Salvatore Mastropondo
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Publish Date: 1998-07-01
Features: A History of European Democracy first historically connects Cartesianism, mutualism, syndicalism, and the People's Party with the doctrine of democratic associations. —Norberto Bobbio, Professor of Politics at the University of Bologna, Italy: The analysis conducted in A History of European Democracy, as well as the narrative of the various radical changes that emerged in Eastern Europe beginning in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, convincingly demonstrates that democracy has today become a philosophy of life. —A History of European Democracy argues that democracy is an independent concept, tracing the evolution of debates on the subject since Montesquieu, elaborating on the various movements in European history, analyzing different perspectives on democracy in different eras, and thus incorporating the causality and purpose of political democratic doctrine into a historical framework. —Antonio Alvarez-Rey, Professor of Politics at the University of Madrid, Spain: