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• Parliamentary Democracy Versus Direct Democracy? : Challenging Liberal, Representative Democracy in the German Bundestag During the Anti-nuclear Demonstrations of 1995–1997 

  Kaarkoski, Miina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

  In German politics, concepts of parliamentarism and the relationship between parliamentarism and democracy have evolved since the nineteenth century. Politicians, citizens and scholars have regularly redefined and challenged ...

• Building and Testing a Comparative Interface on Northwest European Historical Parliamentary Debates : Relative Term Frequency Analysis of British Representative Democracy 

  Ihalainen, Pasi; Janssen, Berit; Marjanen, Jani; Vaara, Ville (RWTH Aachen, 2022)

  Tensions between the people and parliament over representation are a normal feature of representative democracies. In this paper, we demonstrate how digital humanities analysis tools help in answering questions about the ...

• Representative Democracy as a Contested Concept : Parliaments after the French, Russian and Digital Revolutions 

  Ihalainen, Pasi (University of Vienna, 2023)

  Democracy is a highly contested and historically elastic concept. The analysis of its changing meanings benefits from comparisons over time and beyond national histories, nowadays supported by digital history. In this ...

• How Theory Shapes Perspective, Or When Did Democracy Become Representative? 

  Bonin, Hugo (Geschichtstheorie am Werk, 2024)

• ‘Democracy’ and ‘People’s Power’ in the Finnish Parliament : the Struggle between Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy 

  Hyvärinen, Matti; Kurunmäki, Jussi; Turunen, Risto; Teräs, Kari; Andrushchenko, Mykola; Peltonen, Jaakko (Helsingin yliopisto, 2023)

  The Finnish language is one that offers two translations of the concept ‘democracy,’ demokratia and kansanvalta (people’s power), which have remained in active political use. We analyse the existence of two terms as a ...