Mikel Urquijo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikel Urquijo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikel |
| FAMILY NAME | Urquijo |
| SIGNATURE | URQUIJO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2212-5114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Concept of the Neutrality of the Parliamentary Speakership and Presidency. The United Kingdom versus Continental Europe
This article analyses the neutrality of the parliamentary presidency by comparing the models of the speakership in the United Kingdom and the presidency in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain in continental Europe. The article considers the various bodies that direct parliamentary work: the speakership and the presidency as one‐person bodies, and the collective bodies that support their work in continental Europe. It reviews the procedure for elect…
An introduction to national biographical dictionaries renovation
The aim of this paper is to take part in the debate about the future of national biographies today. In this sense, we analyse national biographical dictionaries as instruments for the creation of national memory and as a foundation in the processes of building nation-states. We analyse the origin and development of national biographical dictionaries in the context of the evolution of biography. We initially observe the elements that condition dic…
Models of parliamentary speakership in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
This article analyzes the speakership in the lower parliamentary chamber in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the systems for electing and defining the functions of the speakership underwent a similar evolution in these countries. Three particular periods are examined when this evolution can be observed: the start of the liberal revolution in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; …
La estrategia de expansión de la Unión de Centro Democrático más allá de los cuadros del Movimiento
En este artículo presentamos una hipótesis para el análisis del proceso de crecimiento de la UCD, complementaria a las interpretaciones hasta ahora realizadas, en la que se propone estudiar la estrategia de captación de candidatos electorales de la UCD más allá de los cuadros del Movimiento, a través de las organizaciones del mundo económico, a partir de un estudio caso. Para el desarrollo de esta propuesta sugerimos la utilización de la biografí…
Caro Cancela, Diego. Parlamento y política en la Sevilla del siglo XIX. Manuel Sánchez Silva frente al proteccionismo catalán y los fueros vascos, Sevilla, Diputación de Sevilla, 2016
El libro que reseñamos es la biografía política de Manuel Sánchez Silva.Como indica el autor, en la introducción, la labor de documentación sobre su vida no ha resultado sencilla, dado que ha sido imposible localizar su archivo privado y que otros testimonios conservados en archivos públicos no se han conservado o no se pueden localizar por la falta de catalogación de algunos fondos.Por ello, la investigación se ha centrado, fundamentalmente, en …
Guerrieri, Sandro. Un Parlamento oltre le nazioni. L'Assemblea Comune della Ceca e le sfide dell'integrazione europea (1952-1958), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
Collective Biography and Europe’s Cultural Legacy
From the 1990s onwards there has been growing interest in the study of biography. As opposed to those who are skeptical of the biographical method, we defend the historiographical importance of collective biographies by contrasting them with biographical collections. By discussing the historical background of biography as a branch of history, and by focusing on the aims, methodology and outcomes of collective biographies, we attempt to show how t…
Oral history for the history of Parliament
In this article a set of sources and methodology are presented for analyzing contemporary Parliaments, based on a case study focusing on the representatives of some of the different parliamentary chambers constituted during the period of the Spanish Transition (1977–82). The use of oral sources is emphasized in particular, since a sound understanding and management of these historiographical sources is a requirement set by the specific characteri…
Prosopography of the MPs during the emergence of mass politics
This article has resulted from a line of research initiated over a decade ago by the Biography and Parliament Research Group at the University of the Basque Country with the aim of analysing parliamentary representation. In this article, Basque parliamentarians during the final period of the Monarchic Liberal Parliament in Spain are analysed. This period saw the industrial take-off in the coastal area of the Basque Country and the emergence of ne…
The MPs of the Basque Country
This article arises from a line of research initiated over a decade ago by the Biography and Parliament Research Group at the University of the Basque Country with the aim of analysing the Parliamentary representation of the Basque Country in the Spanish Parliament throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This consists of a prosopographical analysis of the Members of Parliament (MPs) on the basis of extensive empirical information (a mi…
The Biographical Dictionary of the Spanish Parliamentarians
This article presents the project of the Biographical Dictionary of the Spanish Parliamentarians. It begins with a reflection on the different models of biographical dictionary in European historiography, and especially the biographical dictionaries of parliamentarians, followed by the specific context of the project. It then explains the methodology that is being employed to develop the project by the Research Network created to carry it out, th…
Biographical dictionaries of members of parliaments in Southern Europe
In recent years editions of biographical dictionaries have been launched in Spain in the long Continental European and Anglophone tradition of such works, but so far only for individual regions. They form the indispensable basis for the collective biographies (prosopography) of members of parliament and other political elites
The coup d'état in Spain
In this article Mikel Urquijo seeks to explain the evolution of the coup d'état as a feature of the political history of Spain in the nineteenth century. The repeated interventions based on the armed forces, with a greater or lesser contribution from the civilian politicians, are seen as the method by which some alternation in government between the political factions was made possible. The article traces the development from the purely military …
O. Martí Arnándiz
La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991
Abstracts of the papers presented at the 47th Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (Bilbao, 2–6 September 1997)
El diccionario biográfico de los Diputados Generales y burócratas de Álava
Congreso de la Comisión Internacional para la historia de los Parlamentos e institucionales representativas
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Sources for the Study of the Spanish Parliament in the Nineteenth Century
In this article Mikel Urquijo has compiled a guide to the sources available for the study of the Spanish Parliament in the period from 1808 to 1874. It has been divided into four sections: the first comprises materials on the different electoral systems and the way in which they operated. The second includes a comprehensive list of published work on the biographies of the members of parliaments, with a general guide to the main collections of unp…
Diccionario biográfico de los Parlamentarios de Vasconia (18081876)
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Trayectoria de la élite parlamentaria vasca durante la crisis del Antiguo Régimen
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Congrés Internacional d'Historla Local de Catalunya
"Relación documental del "Laboratorio para el Análisis de la Transición del Anclen Réginu
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Biographical dictionaries of members of parliaments in Southern Europe
In recent years editions of biographical dictionaries have been launched in Spain in the long Continental European and Anglophone tradition of such works, but so far only for individual regions. They form the indispensable basis for the collective biographies (prosopography) of members of parliament and other political elites
Congrés Internacional d'Historla Local de Catalunya
"Relación documental del "Laboratorio para el Análisis de la Transición del Anclen Réginu
W
Trayectoria de la élite parlamentaria vasca durante la crisis del Antiguo Régimen
W
Diccionario biográfico de los Parlamentarios de Vasconia (18081876)
W
El diccionario biográfico de los Diputados Generales y burócratas de Álava
Congreso de la Comisión Internacional para la historia de los Parlamentos e institucionales representativas
W
Sources for the Study of the Spanish Parliament in the Nineteenth Century
In this article Mikel Urquijo has compiled a guide to the sources available for the study of the Spanish Parliament in the period from 1808 to 1874. It has been divided into four sections: the first comprises materials on the different electoral systems and the way in which they operated. The second includes a comprehensive list of published work on the biographies of the members of parliaments, with a general guide to the main collections of unp…
La paz simulada. Una historia de la Guerra Fría, 1941-1991
Abstracts of the papers presented at the 47th Conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (Bilbao, 2–6 September 1997)
O. Martí Arnándiz
The coup d'état in Spain
In this article Mikel Urquijo seeks to explain the evolution of the coup d'état as a feature of the political history of Spain in the nineteenth century. The repeated interventions based on the armed forces, with a greater or lesser contribution from the civilian politicians, are seen as the method by which some alternation in government between the political factions was made possible. The article traces the development from the purely military …
Biographical dictionaries of members of parliaments in Southern Europe
In recent years editions of biographical dictionaries have been launched in Spain in the long Continental European and Anglophone tradition of such works, but so far only for individual regions. They form the indispensable basis for the collective biographies (prosopography) of members of parliament and other political elites
The Biographical Dictionary of the Spanish Parliamentarians
This article presents the project of the Biographical Dictionary of the Spanish Parliamentarians. It begins with a reflection on the different models of biographical dictionary in European historiography, and especially the biographical dictionaries of parliamentarians, followed by the specific context of the project. It then explains the methodology that is being employed to develop the project by the Research Network created to carry it out, th…
The MPs of the Basque Country
This article arises from a line of research initiated over a decade ago by the Biography and Parliament Research Group at the University of the Basque Country with the aim of analysing the Parliamentary representation of the Basque Country in the Spanish Parliament throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This consists of a prosopographical analysis of the Members of Parliament (MPs) on the basis of extensive empirical information (a mi…
Prosopography of the MPs during the emergence of mass politics
This article has resulted from a line of research initiated over a decade ago by the Biography and Parliament Research Group at the University of the Basque Country with the aim of analysing parliamentary representation. In this article, Basque parliamentarians during the final period of the Monarchic Liberal Parliament in Spain are analysed. This period saw the industrial take-off in the coastal area of the Basque Country and the emergence of ne…
Collective Biography and Europe’s Cultural Legacy
From the 1990s onwards there has been growing interest in the study of biography. As opposed to those who are skeptical of the biographical method, we defend the historiographical importance of collective biographies by contrasting them with biographical collections. By discussing the historical background of biography as a branch of history, and by focusing on the aims, methodology and outcomes of collective biographies, we attempt to show how t…
Oral history for the history of Parliament
In this article a set of sources and methodology are presented for analyzing contemporary Parliaments, based on a case study focusing on the representatives of some of the different parliamentary chambers constituted during the period of the Spanish Transition (1977–82). The use of oral sources is emphasized in particular, since a sound understanding and management of these historiographical sources is a requirement set by the specific characteri…
Guerrieri, Sandro. Un Parlamento oltre le nazioni. L'Assemblea Comune della Ceca e le sfide dell'integrazione europea (1952-1958), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
Caro Cancela, Diego. Parlamento y política en la Sevilla del siglo XIX. Manuel Sánchez Silva frente al proteccionismo catalán y los fueros vascos, Sevilla, Diputación de Sevilla, 2016
El libro que reseñamos es la biografía política de Manuel Sánchez Silva.Como indica el autor, en la introducción, la labor de documentación sobre su vida no ha resultado sencilla, dado que ha sido imposible localizar su archivo privado y que otros testimonios conservados en archivos públicos no se han conservado o no se pueden localizar por la falta de catalogación de algunos fondos.Por ello, la investigación se ha centrado, fundamentalmente, en …
Models of parliamentary speakership in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
This article analyzes the speakership in the lower parliamentary chamber in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the systems for electing and defining the functions of the speakership underwent a similar evolution in these countries. Three particular periods are examined when this evolution can be observed: the start of the liberal revolution in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; …
La estrategia de expansión de la Unión de Centro Democrático más allá de los cuadros del Movimiento
En este artículo presentamos una hipótesis para el análisis del proceso de crecimiento de la UCD, complementaria a las interpretaciones hasta ahora realizadas, en la que se propone estudiar la estrategia de captación de candidatos electorales de la UCD más allá de los cuadros del Movimiento, a través de las organizaciones del mundo económico, a partir de un estudio caso. Para el desarrollo de esta propuesta sugerimos la utilización de la biografí…
An introduction to national biographical dictionaries renovation
The aim of this paper is to take part in the debate about the future of national biographies today. In this sense, we analyse national biographical dictionaries as instruments for the creation of national memory and as a foundation in the processes of building nation-states. We analyse the origin and development of national biographical dictionaries in the context of the evolution of biography. We initially observe the elements that condition dic…
The Concept of the Neutrality of the Parliamentary Speakership and Presidency. The United Kingdom versus Continental Europe
This article analyses the neutrality of the parliamentary presidency by comparing the models of the speakership in the United Kingdom and the presidency in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain in continental Europe. The article considers the various bodies that direct parliamentary work: the speakership and the presidency as one‐person bodies, and the collective bodies that support their work in continental Europe. It reviews the procedure for elect…
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