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Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies
Duma, yuan, and beyond Conceptualizing parliaments and parliamentarism in and after the Russian and Qing Empires
Concepts in the Russian imperial context
Concepts in the Qing imperial context
Imperial modernizations
Postiinperial settlements
Conclusion
Bibliography
Montesquieu vs. Bagehot Two visions of parliamentarism in Japan
Introduction: Heisei democracy and the 1955 System
Historical premises
The awareness of “Japan”
Kanto and Kinri
Gogi and kogi
The Montesquieu moment
The Bagehot moment
Federalism and unicameralism
Notes
Public opinion under imperial benevolence Japanese “national essence” leader Torio Koyata’s anti-liberal parliamentarianism in the Genro-in and the House of Lords1
From militarism to “public opinion”-based parliamentarianism
“Public opinion” and the impact of the public sphere
Parliamentarianism as facilitating the natural order of the unity of the ethical state and society
Egalitarian communalism and the agency of moral autonomy
The egalitarianism of ethnic nationalism
Party politics and the role of the public-minded exemplary gentleman
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
The assembly of the land (zemskii sobor) Historiographies and mythologies of a Russian “parliament”1
Historiographies
Autocratic mythology
Democratic mythology
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
The 22 Frimaire of Yuan Shikai Privy councils in the constitutional architectures of Japan and China, 1887-1917
Japan: “The Cabinet executes, the Conseil d’État deliberates”
Qing Empire: An “Academy of Worthies” as “retirement home”?
Republic of China: the Consejo de Estado and the “fortune of the Republic of China“
Conclusion
Notes
A rada for the empire Inventing the tradition of Cossack self-governance during the 1905 Revolution1
The Cossack land
Metropolitan Russia encounters the Cossacks
The tradition restored
Mapping the Host
The Tsai ’s loyal Cossacks
A Cossack parliament?
How was it possible?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Ottoman parliamentary procedure in the Chamber of Deputies (Meclis-i Mebusan) and the Great National Assembly of Turkey (Tilrkiye Bilyilk Millet Meclisi), 1876-1923
Historical context: the Tanzimat period
The Constitution of 1876
The 1908 Revolution
The Second Constitutional Period
The constitutional revision of 1909
Adaptation of the internal regulations
Rules for plenary sessions
Commissions and branches
Notes
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Nominal democracy in Stalinism The Soviet Constitution of 19361
Lenin’s and Stalin’s views of democracy and socialism
Discourse of democracy in the mid-1950s
Why did the Constitution turn out to be a sham?
Nominal Soviet institutions
The form and content dichotomy
Law and practice
Elections
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
The preparations for the first Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the quest for legitimacy
Changing visions of legitimate rule in the republican period
Legitimizing Communist rule
Inviting the protagonists and setting the stage
Delegations in the CPPCC
The preparatory committee of the consultative conference
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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