Organizing Democracy Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century 1st Edition by Henk Te Velde, Maartje Janse 3319500201 9783319500201

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Author:  Henk Te Velde, Maartje Janse 

This book explores the new types of political organization that emerged in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, from popular meetings to single-issue organizations and political parties. The development of these has often been used to demonstrate a movement towards democratic representation or political institutionalization. This volume challenges the idea that the development of ‘democracy’ is a story of rise and progress at all. It is rather a story of continuous but never completely satisfying attempts of interpreting the rule of the people. Taking the perspective of nineteenth-century organizers as its point of departure, this study shows that contemporaries hardly distinguished between petitioning, meeting and association. The attraction of organizing was that it promised representation, accountability and popular participation. Only in the twentieth century did parties reliable partners for the state in averting revolution, managing the unpredictable effects of universal suffrage, and reforming society. This collection analyzes them in their earliest stage, as just one of several types of civil society organizations, that did not differ that much from each other. The promise of organization, and the experiments that resulted from it, deeply impacted modern politics.

Organizing Democracy: Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Perspectives on Political Organizing
Features of Nineteenth-Century Political Organizing
Organizing Democracy
Notes
Chapter 2: ‘Association Is a Mighty Engine’: Mass Organization and the Machine Metaphor, 1825
The Machine Metaphor in Politics
Religious Machines
‘The Great Art of Adapting Means to Ends’
The Technological Sublime
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Chapter 3: ‘Petition! Petition!! Petition!!!: Petitioning and Political Organization in Britain,
The Growth of Popular Petitioning
The Advantages of Petitioning as a Method of Political Organization
Organization and Participation: The Case of the Anti-Corn Law League
Conclusion and Reflections
Notes
Chapter 4: Can ‘The People’ Speak? Popular Meetings and the Ambiguities of Popular Sovereignt
Notes
Chapter 5: Law and Voluntary Association in the Early United States
Law-Mindedness and Everyday Constitutionalism in American Civil Society
Law and American Voluntarism
Notes
Chapter 6: Organizing in a Moment of Madness: Political Meetings and Clubs in 1848
Meetings on the Brink of Revolution
Club Fever in Paris
Clubs in Revolutionary Berlin
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7: The Democratic Framing of Protest in the Age of Revolution: The Language of Civil R
Introduction
The Importance of Civil Rights Discourse in the Belgian Revolution of 1830
From Petitions to Demonstrations in Ghent, 1831–1839
The Freedom of Association and Assembly
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8: Brilliant Failure: Political Parties Under the Republican Era in France (1870–1914)
Why Did the Political Parties Fail?
The Left
The Special Features of French Republican Politics
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 9: The German National Association 1859–1867: Rise and Fall of a Proto-Party
Aims and Political Strategies: Three Phases in the History of the Nationalverein
The Nationalverein’s Organizational Structure
Forms of Action
On the Way to a Modern Major Party? The Efforts Undertaken to Reform the Nationalverein
Post-Nationalverein: The National Liberal Party and Social Democracy
Notes
Chapter 10: Manipulation or Participation? Membership Inclusion in the Party Organizations of the
How to Implement Organizational Ideals?
Organization in Practice
Participation and Legitimacy
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 11: Agitate, Educate, and Organize: Radical Networks in New York in the Early 1880s
The Election of 1880
Spreading the Light
The Election of 1882
Being Organized
The ‘Party’
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 12: Party Versus Party: Beatrice Webb and the Ascent of the British Labour Party
The Political Hostess
Grosvenor Road
The Labour Party Machine
Conclusion: The Strange Death of the Political Hostess?
Notes
Chapter 13: The Domestication of a Machine. The Debate About Political Parties Around 1900
The Study of Political Parties
The Future of Democracy and American Political Parties
Ostrogorski and the Caucus
Popular Participation
Max Weber and the Domestication of Democracy

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