“Barricades Across the Road to Democracy”: The Referendum and the Crisis of Parliamentarism in Europe, 1890–1930
Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Published online on May 18, 2026
Abstract
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During the first decades of the twentieth century, the word “democracy” was rarely used to describe existing political systems. Rather, it was usually employed polemically to criticize European parliamentary regimes for their incapacity to actualize the ...
During the first decades of the twentieth century, the word “democracy” was rarely used to describe existing political systems. Rather, it was usually employed polemically to criticize European parliamentary regimes for their incapacity to actualize the ...