Joaquim Albareda, Manuel Herrero Sánchez | 2019 | ISBN: 1032094931 | English | 364 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge

What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; parliaments and municipalities), from various European territories and finally from a connected and comparative perspective.
The aim is twofold: analyse the different mechanisms of political representation before Liberalism, their strengths and limitations; value the processes of oligarchisation and the possible mismatch between a libertarian model and a reality which was far from its idealised image.