The Voice of the People?

Political Participation before the Revolutions

Wim Blockmans (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

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Routledge
31 January 2024

European history; Political structure & processes

Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged.

Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society controlling relatively independent resources which lead to political participation forming across the continent. Instead of starting from any ideal type of political participation, this book focuses on the variation through time and space, its composition and activity, helps to explain the functions particular institutional settings fulfilled. The time frame 1100–1800 sheds light on the long-term evolutions such as institutional inertia and processes of oligarchizing. To reveal a correlation of economic and demographical growth with the claim of rising social classes to voice their interests. It also points to the opposite tendency: the formation of fiscalmilitary monarchical states.

This book is essential reading for those interested in the formation of Europe’s political structures and students of premodern political history.

By: Wim Blockmans (Leiden University the Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 843g
ISBN: 9781032063942
ISBN 10: 1032063947
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 31 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wim Blockmans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. His previous publications include the co-editing of The Routledge History Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300–1600 (2016).

Reviews for The Voice of the People?: Political Participation before the Revolutions

'[...] he aims to find an explanation for the way in which political participation has or has not taken shape over the centuries and in different places [the liberal revolutions before and after 1800].' Lauren Lauret, the low countries, 2024 - https://www.the-low-countries.com/article/the-struggle-for-political-participation-is-never-over