Ruling the assembly. Procedural fairness, popular emotion and access to democracy in Western Europe, in the nineteenth to twentieth centuries

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2 For an overview, see: A. Floridia, From Participation to Deliberation. A Critical Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy (Washington, 2017); A. Bächtiger, J.S. Dryzek, J. Manebridge and M.E. Warren (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (Oxford, 2018); J. Habermas, Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit: Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (Berlin, 2001).

3 C. Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London, 1993). L.M. Sanders, ‘Against Deliberation’, Political Theory 25, (1997) pp. 347–76. S. Chambers, ‘Behind Closed Doors: Publicity, Secrecy, and the Quality of Deliberation’, The Journal of Political Philosophy 12, (2004), pp. 389–410.

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7 J. Lawrence, Electing our Masters. The Husting in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (Oxford, 2009); C. Tilly, Contentious Performances (Cambridge, 2008).

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This work was supported by Statesman Thorbecke Fund Programme, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Notes on contributors

Anne Heyer

Anne Heyer is Assistant Professor in Political History at the History Institute at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her work focuses on the ideas and practices of political participation from 1800 to the present day. She has mainly published on the history of political parties from an interdisciplinary perspective, including her monograph The Making of the Democratic Party (Cham, 2022). Her research interests also include digital history, populism, social movements and democracy in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Britain and Spain).

Anne Petterson

Anne Petterson is Assistant Professor in Political History at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH) of Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research interests involve local, national and political identity formation in the daily lives of citizens in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recent publications are ‘Performing national identities in everyday life. Popular motivations and national indifference in 19th-century Amsterdam’ in Nations and Nationalism 29, (2023); the forum ‘What does it mean to be a politician?’ in Journal of Modern European History 18, (2020), (with Henk te Velde). Her PhD thesis (Leiden University, 2017), Eigenwijs vaderland. Populair nationalisme in negentiende-eeuws Amsterdam (2017) was awarded the prestigious Dirk Jacob Veegens Prijs of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in 2018.

Henk te Velde

Henk te Velde is Professor of Dutch History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is President of the Royal Netherlands Historical Society as well as of the (European) Association for Political History. In addition to the history of the Netherlands, his research interests include the comparative history of political culture, rhetoric and parliaments in Western Europe. His recent English language publications include Organizing Democracy. Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century (Cham, 2017), edited with Maartje Janse; Democracy in Modern Europe. A Conceptual History (New York & Oxford, 2018), edited with Jussi Kurunmäki and Jeppe Nevers; The Ideal of Parliament in Europe since 1800 (Cham, 2019), edited with R. Aerts, C. van Baalen, M. van der Steen and M.L. Recker; Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850. Europe and the Americas (Cham, 2023), edited with Judith Pollmann.