TY - CHAP

T1 - The History of Parliamentary Democracy in Denmark in Comparative Perspective

AU - Jakobsen, Uffe

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - "In the last chapter of Part Three, 'The History of Parliamentary Democracy in Denmark in Comparative Perspective', Uffe Jakobsen takes up a comparative perspective to the history of European democratization. Adopting the recent processes of change, i.a. of transitions from the authoritarian rule to that of democracy, in Eastern Europe after 1989 as his point of reference, Jakobsen attempts to build a systematic view looking at democratization of Denmark in the nineteenth century. Curiously enough, as Jakobsen shows, similar challenges emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on both sides of the Continent. The outcome invites, in his view, a reconsideration of the supposed specificity of the types and timing of changes within the historical processes of democratization in Western Europe."

AB - "In the last chapter of Part Three, 'The History of Parliamentary Democracy in Denmark in Comparative Perspective', Uffe Jakobsen takes up a comparative perspective to the history of European democratization. Adopting the recent processes of change, i.a. of transitions from the authoritarian rule to that of democracy, in Eastern Europe after 1989 as his point of reference, Jakobsen attempts to build a systematic view looking at democratization of Denmark in the nineteenth century. Curiously enough, as Jakobsen shows, similar challenges emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on both sides of the Continent. The outcome invites, in his view, a reconsideration of the supposed specificity of the types and timing of changes within the historical processes of democratization in Western Europe."

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9780754672500

SP - 301

EP - 316

BT - The Ashgate Research Companion to the Politics of Democratization in Europe

A2 - Palonen, Kari

A2 - Pulkkinen, Tuija

A2 - Rosales, José María

PB - Ashgate

ER -