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The Making of the Democratic Party in Europe, 1860–1890

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Authors:
  1. Anne Heyer

    1. Institute for History, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  • Offers an interpretative reading of party emergence that transcends the national focus of conventional party history
  • Provides comparative case studies of the SDAP, the ARP and the NLF to explore party formation in different
  • Contributes to current debate on surrounding the crisis of the modern political party

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political History (PSPH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Anne Heyer
    Pages 1-26

  3. A New Perspective on Party Emergence

    • Anne Heyer
    Pages 27-59

  4. The Issue of Education: How the Association Became Party

    • Anne Heyer
    Pages 61-110

  5. Making the Party

    • Anne Heyer
    Pages 111-147

  6. Mobilizing and Disciplining: The Relationship Between Leaders and the Masses

    • Anne Heyer
    Pages 149-188

  7. The Role of Elections

    • Anne Heyer
    Pages 189-230

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 231-289
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About this book

This book analyses the emergence of modern parties in nineteenth-century Europe and explores their connection with the slowly developing institution of democracy. The close relationship between party and democracy was established by the founders of the first modern parties who presented themselves as representatives of the people. Focusing on the ideas and practices of party founders, this book moves away from the traditional view that party formation was the result of industrialisation. It instead shows that the response of party founders was to frame and establish the modern party as an alternative to existing models of political representation, and one that was characterised by popular participation.In order to mobilize their followers, party founders gave new meaning to existing structures and developed new practices of political organization. The result was the creation of organizations that continue to shape the history of modern democracy.

Exploring the foundation of three political parties: the German Social Democratic Workers’ Party (SDAP); the Dutch Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP); and the British National Liberal Federation, the author analyses the phenomenon of innovative party formation in nineteenth-century Europe, before the democratic mass-membership party had become a widely accepted concept. Taking a transnational and comparative approach, this book illustrates the decisive role of party founders in the formation of modern democracy, making it an essential read for anyone researching the history of democracy and political parties.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for History, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Anne Heyer

About the author

Anne Heyer is Assistant Professor of European History (1800-present) in the Institute for History at Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on political participation, and she explores the history of political parties, populism, social movements and democracy in Europe (primarily Germany, Netherlands, Britain and Spain). In addition, Anne is a research fellow at the German think tank for political participation, 'd|part', where she studies current questions of political participation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Making of the Democratic Party in Europe, 1860–1890

  • Authors: Anne Heyer

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87748-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87747-7Published: 16 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87750-7Published: 17 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87748-4Published: 15 February 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5176

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-5184

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 289

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: European History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, History, general

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