Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes for the Reader
- Map
- A New History of the Birth of Modern Democracy
- Part I State-Building and Political Participation
- 1 Medieval States and Estates
- 2 Sixteenth-Century Origins of the Fiscal-Military State
- 3 Patterns and Mutations of Early Modern Participation
- Part II Notions and Practices of Equality
- Part III Revolutionary Convergences
- From Past to Future
- Further Reading
- Index
3 - Patterns and Mutations of Early Modern Participation
from Part I - State-Building and Political Participation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes for the Reader
- Map
- A New History of the Birth of Modern Democracy
- Part I State-Building and Political Participation
- 1 Medieval States and Estates
- 2 Sixteenth-Century Origins of the Fiscal-Military State
- 3 Patterns and Mutations of Early Modern Participation
- Part II Notions and Practices of Equality
- Part III Revolutionary Convergences
- From Past to Future
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The development of institutionalised political participation is shown for nine of the most important early modern European states – or else those, such as Switzerland, that figure prominently in the history of democracy. The focus is on not only the ‘long’ seventeenth century and the ruptures it created but also the general continuities in essentially all early modern states: they all featured some mode of institutionalised central political participation, but it was always geared towards the participation of the top social elites only.
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- Democracy's Double HelixParticipation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe, pp. 67 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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