De vergadering van de Staten-Generaal in de Republiek voor 1795 en de publiciteit

Koopmans, Joop W.

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“…Most journals contained some details about the number of representatives and the public rituals, but no information was given about actual political debates. Political meetings were closed for the public in the Dutch Republic, just as in other states in early modern Europe (Koopmans 2005: 392–95).…”

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Democracy and Civil Society in the Early Modern Period: The Rise of Three Types of Civil Societies in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic

Dijck¹

2017

Soc. sci. hist.

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This article proposes to refine the concept civil society by discerning three distinct forms of civil society in the past. This refined conceptual framework counters the criticism that civil society suffers from its growing popularity and its broad definition. The usefulness of these three forms of civil society—which are based on the later work of Jürgen Habermas—are applied in this article on the seventeenth-century Low Countries. The central question is how these forms of civil society acted as schools of democracy in the seventeenth-century Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic. The three types of civil society are identified that developed through time and built a cumulative tradition of civil society. These are the medieval craft guilds (liberal civil society), the early modern civic militia (republican civil society), and the modern Enlightenment sociability (deliberative civil society). Data about the associational life in two cities in the Low Countries, Mechelen and Rotterdam, show that different forms of civil societies had different functions according to the societal context. Furthermore, the data show that societies with civil societies characterized by social inclusive boards and high mutation ratios had less political impact when they lacked links with existing political institutions. This implies that civil societies did not as a rule serve as schools of democracy.

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Section: Enlightenment Sociability and Deliberative Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Democracy and Civil Society in the Early Modern Period: The Rise of Three Types of Civil Societies in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic

Dijck¹

2017

Soc. sci. hist.

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The ambassador and the press: printed diplomatic letters and the entanglement of public and private news provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic

Bowdler,

der Weduwen

2023

The Seventeenth Century

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De vergadering van de Staten-Generaal in de Republiek voor 1795 en de publiciteit

Abstract: Deze vragen zullen op basis van steekproeven in enkele kranten met een landelijk bereik, een paar regionale kranten en enige nieuwsboeken worden verkend.

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Democracy and Civil Society in the Early Modern Period: The Rise of Three Types of Civil Societies in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic

Democracy and Civil Society in the Early Modern Period: The Rise of Three Types of Civil Societies in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic

The ambassador and the press: printed diplomatic letters and the entanglement of public and private news provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic

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