With this article, 1 I continue my long-term studies on the conceptualization of politics by analyzing the vocabulary of politicians in parliamentary debates. I use conceptual history both as an empirical study and as a medium of theorizing on
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Conceptual Explorations around “Politics”
Thematizing the Activity of Politics in the Plenary Debates of the German Bundestag
Kari Palonen
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 16–39 (24 total)
Introduction
Citizenship in Europe after World War II—the Challenges of Migration and European Integration
Claudia Wiesner and Anna Björk
The concept of citizenship in Europe after World War II faces two major challenges: migration and European integration. This introduction precedes a group of articles examining debates and law-making processes related to the concept of citizenship in Europe after World War II. The introduction sketches the historical development of citizenship in European representative democracies, taking into account four basic dimensions (access to citizenship, citizenship rights, citizenship duties, and the active content of citizenship) for analyzing changes in the concept of citizenship.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2014
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 50–59 (10 total)
The Sanctification and Democratisation of "the Nation" and "the People" in Late Eighteenth-Century Northwestern Europe
Proposing a Comparative Conceptual History
Pasi Ihalainen
This paper suggests that the study of the modernisation of European political cultures in the eighteenth century would greatly benefit from a comparative conceptual historical approach. is approach would effect the reconstruction of a variety of meanings attached to chosen political concepts in different national contexts through the side-by-side analysis of primary sources originating from each case according to the methodology of both historical semantics and pragmatics. A promising research topic is the continuity and change in the conceptualisation of national community, national identity, popular sovereignty and democracy in various European political cultures. e conceptual analyses of late eighteenth-century political sermons from five northwestern European countries, conducted by the author, for example, reveal that conceptual changes related to the rise of nationalism took place even within public religion, allowing it to adapt itself to the age of nationalism. Further analysis of the secular debates taking place in representative bodies and public discourse in late eighteenth-century Britain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden elucidates the gradual development of the notion that all political power is ultimately derived from the people and that such a system constituted a "democracy" in a positive sense within different parliamentary traditions and perhaps even before the French Revolution.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Apr 2007
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- Research Article
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- 125–151 (27 total)
Democracy in the Plural?
The Concepts of Democracy in Swedish Parliamentary Debates during the Interwar Years
Anna Friberg
The article explores some of the composite concepts of democracy that were used in Sweden, primarily by the Social Democrats during the interwar years. Should these be seen as pluralizations of the collective singular democracy or as something qualitatively new? By showing how these concepts relate to each other and to democracy as a whole, the article argues that they should be considered statements about democracy as one entity, that democracy did not only concern the political sphere, but was generally important throughout the whole of society. The article also examines the Swedish parliamentarians' attitudes toward democracy after the realization of universal suffrage, and argues that democracy was eventually perceived as such a positive concept that opponents of what was labeled democratic reforms had to reformulate the political issues into different words in order to avoid coming across as undemocratic.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2012
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- Research Article
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- 12–35 (24 total)
Sovereignty versus Influence
European Unity and the Conceptualization of Sovereignty in British Parliamentary Debates, 1945–2016
Teemu Häkkinen and Miina Kaarkoski
sovereignty continues to draw attention. Using parliamentary debates, we will employ a qualitative analysis of historical political debates to ascertain how the concept of sovereignty has been defi ned and used in historical contexts with regard to the
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 54–78 (25 total)
Accessing Citizenship
The Conceptual and Political Changes of the German Naturalization Policy, 1999–2006
Anna Björk
This article deals explicitly with the dimension of access in the concept of citizenship and is discussed from the point of view of migration. Access is analyzed in the context of the reform of German citizenship laws in 1999. The state of Hesse is singled out to be used as an example of parliamentary debate on the concepts of citizenship and integration. The point is to explicate the interrelations of the federal legislative reform and the conceptual implications thereof, using Hesse as a state-level example.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2014
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- Research Article
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- 74–87 (14 total)
Uffe Jakobsen
This article traces the uses of the concept of citizenship in Danish public discourse in light of the theoretical framework of conceptual history. The author draws upon parliamentary debates, media articles, and debates on political subjects that are part of the textual corpus that served to create The Danish Dictionary in order not only to identify the different usages and conceptual changes of “citizenship” but also to identify the actors using the concept. In addition to mapping the use of “citizenship” in its traditional meanings, such as the entitlement to rights, political identity, civic virtue, and political participation, the Jakobsen encounters a new meaning, namely, citizenship as “free consumer choice.” This conceptual change, however, is only espoused by elected politicians, while ordinary people tend to preserve the traditional meanings of citizenship.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Oct 2005
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- Research Article
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- 201–222 (22 total)
Suburban Dissent
Defining Neighborhood Space and Place in Perth, Western Australia
Jocelyn D. Avery
Australia) . 2000 . Parliamentary Debates . Senate . 30 October . Cocks , Errol , Charlie Fox , Mark Brogan , and Michael Lee , eds. 1996 . Under Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 201–217 (17 total)
Excuses! Excuses!
The Failure to Amend Britain’s Immigration Policy, 1942–1943
Lesley Clare Urbach
Cazalet, during a parliamentary debate on 19 May 1943 about the ‘refugee problem’. He was referring to the extent to which Britain granted asylum to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe both before and during the war. In his speech, he exhorted the
Introduction
Experiences of Time in the Ibero-American World, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Javier Fernández-Sebastián and Fabio Wasserman
the great authors and major philosophical-political texts to encompass a corpus of sources—newspapers, pamphlets, manifestos, parliamentary debates, and so forth—that covers a range of social uses and conceptualizations far wider than the reduced
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 43–47 (5 total)