Organised by Ann-Christina L. Knudsen (Aarhus University)
Democracy ‘as we know it’ in Europe is often portrayed as a progressive and linear development of ever-more inclusive forms of political representation. New research into the historical and political processes that led to the construction of new forms of political representation will however tell a somewhat different story to the grand, normative narrative of democracy’s development. The aim of this workshop is to discuss new research into a variety of key moments when new forms of political representation in Europe were constructed. The workshop has two key foci: 1) the creation of universal suffrage in the first decade of the twentieth century, and to the European Parliament from the early 1950s to the late 1970s; 2) new forms of parliamentary representation in relation to the development of parliamentary diplomacy and international organisations from the interwar period to the end of the Cold War.
Lecture Hall 3