Parliamentary Obstruction and the “Crisis” of European Parliamentary Politics Around 1900

2013/01/01 by H. te Velde · 1 voice · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #European Political History Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.7227/r.16.1.7

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Abstract

A t the end of the nineteenth century the crisis of the parliamen- tary system was a hotly debated topic. The 1920s and 1930s, however, were not the fi rst time the parliamentary system was perceived as being in 'crisis'. Around 1900 the appearance of organized 'obstruction' in European parliaments was seen as the most prominent sign that

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