International Conference ‘The Ideal Parliament’ and EuParl Working Conference
The European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History (EuParl.net) organized its second international conference in The Hague, The Netherlands, on the perceptions, interpretations and memories of parliaments and parliamentarism in Europe. Experts from different parts of Europe spoke about ‘The Ideal Parliament’ in the 19th, 20th and 21th century. The conference took place from 30 May – 1 June 2013.
Prof. dr. Remieg Aerts (Department of Political History, Radboud University Nijmegen)
– Prof. dr. Carla van Baalen (Centre for Parliamentary History, Radboud University Nijmegen)
– Prof. dr. Andreas Schulz (Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politische Parteien, Brlin)
– Dr. Margit van der Steen (European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History)
– Prof. dr. Henk te Velde (Department of Dutch History, Leiden University)
- Marnix Beyen – Parliament and the nation: The Belgian national assembly as an example of parliamentary representation in the 1830s
- András Cieger – Traditions and Myths of Hungarian Parliamentarism after 1867
- Jure Gašparič – Change and Continuity. Implementing Parliamentary Democracy in Eastern Europe after 1989: the Case of Slovenia
- Adéla Gjuričová – The Function and Practice of Parliamentarianism in State Socialism: The Case of Czechoslovakia
- Wim de Jong – Democratizing Democracy beyond Parliament: the Politics of Outside Action in the Netherlands and Western Europe in the 1960s-1970s
- Kálmán Pócza – Crises of the Parliamentarism in Hungary: Decline of an Old Idea(l)? Consequences of a Debate for Current Ideas and Practices of Parliamentarism
- Thomas Raithel – The case of Weimar Germany
- Marie-Luise Recker – Trial and Error. Post-War democracies and the Restoration of Parliamentarism: Germany, Austria, Italy
- Nicolas Roussellier – Extremism and Malpractice in Parliament : Impairment of and Ideal. The case of France
- Jens Späth – Parliamentary Government in Spain: the Model of the Cádiz Cortes and the Ideal of the Moderate Monarchy in Europe
- Henk te Velde – Models of Parliamentary Culture: Britain and France
- Stephanie Zloch – Enthusiasm for Parliamentary Democracy in New Statesafter the First World War: the Case of Poland
The Ideal Parliament was made possible through the financial support of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Radboud University Nijmegen, Leiden University and the Montesquieu Institute The Hague.
Dr. Margit van der Steen, Coordinator EuParl.net
Centre for Parliamentary History Radboud University Nijmegen
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PO 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Telephone +31243612463 (Irene Helsen)
E-mail: m.vandersteen@let.ru.nl
