The Ideal of Parliament in Europe since 1800

1 The Ideal of Parliament. A European History since 1800: Introduction - Remieg Aerts and Joop Th.J. van den Berg.- Part One: Establishing Parliaments .- 2 Between National Character and an International Model: Parliaments in the Nineteenth Century - Henk te Velde.- 3 Parliamentary Government in Southern Europe? The Model of the Cádiz Cortes and the Ideal of the Moderate Monarchy - Jens Späth.- 4 The Men of 1830: Remembering the National Congress in the Belgian House of Representatives, 1844-1930 - Marnix Beyen.- 5 New Models and Old Traditions: Debates on Parliamentarism in Hungary after the Austro-Hungarian Settlement of 1867 - András Cieger.- 6 Experiencing Parliamentarism: The German National Assembly of 1848 - Andreas Schulz.- Part Two: Crises of Expectations.- 7 Enthusiasm for Parliamentary Democracy in New States after the First World War: The Case of Poland - Stephanie Zloch.- 8 Closing the Expectation Gap? Crises of Hungarian Parliamentarism in the Inter-War Period - Kálmán Pócza.- 9 `A Bad Parliamentarianism : Normative Expectations and Criticism of Parliamentarianism in the Weimar Reichstag - Thomas Raithel.- Part Three: Resilience of Parliamentary Ideals.- 10 Trial and Error. Post-War Democracies and the Restoration of Parliamentarism: Italy, Austria, Germany - Marie-Luise Recker.- 11 Too Ideal to be a Parliament: The Representative Assemblies in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989 - Adéla Gjuri ová.- 12 The Transfer of Parliamentary Ideals to Civil Society in the Netherlands in the 1970s - Wim de Jong.- 13 Change and Continuity: Implementing Parliamentary Democracy in Eastern Europe after 1989 with a Focus on Slovenia - Jure Gašpari .