Urban Elections and Decision-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1327-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 335 Seiten

Everyday political business in early modern cities took place under many different sources of tension. De facto establishment of the oligarchy in the government collided with the urban community’s expectations of participation and with the responsibility for common welfare which was supposed to be the guideline for policies in the municipal boards. Urban Elections and Decision-Making in Early Modern Europe offers new interpretations of the governmental techniques applied by urban elites to cope with these tensions.
Written by leading historians of urban history and based on a broad foundation of previously unpublished research the volume explores the procedures of decision-making in early modern cities from an international and micrological point of view. It examines the attempts of delegating and stabilising power through elections, asks for the different ways of developing and demonstrating consent or dissent within the cities’ walls—urban revolts included—and offers a new theoretical framework to describe and understand these phenomena adequately.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlögl, Rudolf

Über Autor(innen)

Schlögl, Rudolf
Rudolf Schlögl holds the Chair of Modern History at the University of Constance, Germany. Since October 2006 he is the Spokesperson of the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundation of Integration”. Most of his current research focuses on the political culture of the early modern city, as in general on communication and media of the early modern society.