Cristiana Senigaglia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4017078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristiana Senigaglia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristiana |
| FAMILY NAME | Senigaglia |
| SIGNATURE | SENIGAGLIA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trieste |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8621-6448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discontinuity and continuity of representation in the nascent Weimar Republic
The German Parliament and the political crisis of 1917–18
In 1917, not least in consequence of the First World War, political and institutional reforms were advanced in Germany which requested the democratization of the suffrage in Prussia and aimed at strengthening the role of the national parliament (Reichstag). Confronted with the resistance shown by the existing powers, the majority parties including the Social Democrats, the Progressive People's Party and the Centre Party (with the intermittent pre…
El concepto de representación en la República de Weimar
Este artículo pretende clarificar el concepto de representación y delimitar la discusión que se produjo durante los tiempos de la República de Weimar. A estos fines, la autora examina las contribuciones que realizaron cuatro de los más significativos teóricos de la representación de la época. En primer lugar, atiende la contraposición entre representación libre y representación vinculada que estableció Max Weber. Seguidamente, muestra el giro que…
Max Weber and the Problematic Issue of Confidentiality in International Politics
What are the reasons that lead Max Weber to be a convinced promoter of publicity in the practices of internal politics and, by contrast, advocate secret procedures in international affairs? The analysis aims at clarifying the different arguments utilised by Weber for justifying his apparently contrasting points of view and explains the reasonable motivations that are adduced to legitimate both issues. Since admitting confidential practices does n…
Max Weber’s typology of medieval cities and the origins of modern representation
From the very outset of his work, Max Weber shows an intense interest for medieval cities and their role of transition to the modern era. His analysis focuses at first on economic aspects, but it progressively entails a sociological inquiry which provides an articulated typology of different kinds of cities in the Middle Ages, and a political analysis highlighting the origin of representative institutions at that time. In general, life in the cit…
Der Weimarer Reichstag
Der Weimarer Reichstag: Die schleichende Ausschaltung, Entmachtung und Zerstörung eines Parlaments [The Weimar Reichstag: the creeping exclusion, disempowerment and dissolution of a parliament]." Parliaments, Estates and Representation, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Die Parlamentarismusdebatte in der Weimarer Republik [The debate on parliamentarism in the Weimar Republic]
From the outset of the Weimar Republic on 9 November 1918, the organization of a parliamentary democracy after the First World War and the repartition of powers between the German Parliament and the German State President aroused a lively debate about parliamentarism. The first phase of the debate was dominated by constitutional advocates who defended the form of parliamentarism created by the Weimar Constitution. In the course of time, criticism…
Weber’s Concern on Immediate Democracy and the Mediation of Parliament
Weber’s judgement on the types of immediate democracy is ambivalent; he recognizes the reduction of institutional mediation and power as well as the possibility of a more direct intervention by the people on the one hand, but he also underlines the major difficulties to find a balance between political decision making and administration, or between the exercise of power and its control. The analysis focuses on the most relevant types of immediate…
The debate on democratization and parliament in Germany from 1871 to 1918
The political setting of the German Kaiserreich founded in 1871 was based on a constitutional monarchy and endowed with a parliament (the Reichstag) elected by means of universal and democratic suffrage. Therefore, the question of democratization concerned specific issues: the extension of the vote to women and younger people, the reordering of the constituencies, and the reform of the graded suffrage in the federal states. However, the political…
Esteem and self-esteem as an interweaving polarity. Max Weber ́s analysis from the Protestant ethic to the ideal-type of politician
Although Max Weber does not specifically analyze the topic of esteem, his investigation of the Protestant ethic offers interesting insights into it. The change in mentality it engendered essentially contributed to enhancing the meaning and importance of esteem in modern society. In his analysis, Weber ascertains that esteem was fundamental to being accepted and integrated into the social life of congregations. Nevertheless, he also highlights tha…
Normes, débat et délibération dans la démocratie parlementaire
This article analyzes the significance of the norm in the conceptions of Max Weber, sociologist and author of the classical work Economy and Society, and of Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School. Both authors have in fact dedicated specific studies to the sociology of right and have conferred a central function on the norms in order to guarantee a correct functioning of parliamentary democracy. For Weber and Haberma…
Korporation und Sittlichkeit
Hegel war einer der ersten Theoretiker, der die soziale Bedeutung der zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts entstehenden Marktgesellschaft reflektierte. Er betont dabei die Gefahren dieser Vergesellschaftungsform, aber auch deren emanzipative Potenziale. Letztere entfalten sich für ihn mit Hilfe der Institution der Korporation. In korporativen Vereinigungen verwandelt sich das zweckorientierte Gegeneinander der Marktakteure in wechselseitige Solidarität…
Parliament and public opinion in Max Weber's analysis
Public opinion was converted into a mass phenomenon concerning an extended public, through the process of democratization that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. This transformation aroused the interest of social and political scientists: Ferdinand Tönnies, Hermann Oncken, and James Bryce, who highlighted relevant aspects relating to public opinion, the process of its formation, and its social and political meaning. By taking inspirat…
Versailles und die Folgen. Außenpolitik zwischen Revisionismus und Verständigung 1919–1933
The book reconstructs the history of Germany between the last phase of the First World War and the end of the Weimar Republic from the standpoint of international affairs and of German foreign poli
Parliament and nation-building
The foundation of the German state in 1871 represents an interesting case of nation-building, since it accomplished political unity among different sovereign states already connected by language and culture. The considerations of Max Weber (1864–1920) are of particular relevance because they not only highlight the specific questions concerning the German nation, but they also apply to several fundamental issues about the formation of new politica…
Nietzsches methodologischer Einfluss auf Max Weber und die Soziologie
Max Weber, the Exchange, and the possibilities of political and parliamentary intervention
Max Weber's analysis of the Exchange focuses on the one hand on the meaning of this institution for modern economy, and on the other hand on the need to create political frames regulating its activity. According to Weber, the Exchange brings about a rationalization of the financial and economic system based on quantification, globalization, and impersonality, abstracting from concrete situations and relationships. Nevertheless, this also implies …
Max Weber and the parliamentary bureaucracy of his time
By means of ideal-types, Weber depicts the most significant features characterizing single sociological phenomena and structures. This article analyses the general procedure concerning their formation and meaning, and then focuses on the theory of bureaucracy. In this case, there is a close relationship between theoretical construct and historical reality, since German bureaucracy between 1871 and 1918 developed into a highly-specialized, rationa…
The German parliament after the political union of 1871
This article takes into consideration the most significant phases of the parliamentary debate after the foundation of the German state in 1871. The peculiarity of the German Constitution is that it allowed a very modern representative system based on universal suffrage on the one hand, and maintained the pre-eminence of the Executive and of bureaucratic power on the other hand. Furthermore, the new union required a complex balance between the for…
Stäche, A. (Hrsg.) Das Harte und das Weiche. Körper - Erfahrung - Konstruktion
Verfassungseinheit und Gewaltenausgleich
From his early writings on, Hegel dedicates much attention to Montesquieu and makes reference to him especially by elaborating the idea of the spirit of a nation (Volksgeist) and by affirming the close connection between culture and institutions. Nevertheless, Hegel's interest in Montesquieu's theory is not uncritical, as can be shown by his different evaluation of virtue and by his exclusive preference for constitutional monarchy. The complex re…
Subjektivität und Politik bei Max Weber
This article examines how Max Weber reconciled his notion of bureaucracy with parliamentary institutions. Rationalizing bureaucracy was indeed the efficient motor of the modern world, itself constructed like a machine. The development of bureaucracy in modern times had separated the private and public spheres, the subjective and objective, and the apparatus of bureaucracy became the dominant partner. Nevertheless, elements of individual freedom r…
Parlament und Presse
In his ‘Preliminary report' on the press and in the speech he made in 1910 at the German Sociologists’ Congress, Max Weber proposed a wide range of questions about the role of the press in modern society and suggested some new methodological approaches concerning this phenomenon. His project was not executed because of some difficulties occurring during the organization of the research, but his ideas are epoch-making. After some partial attempts …
Parlament und Presse im Zeitalter Max Webers
At the beginning of the twentieth century the German sociologist Max Weber regarded the new mass phenonmenon of the press as of major interest for sociological research. In 1909–10 he put forward two proposals for collaborative research on a grand scale into the place of the press in society, culture and politics. Only his own lawsuit with a newspaper, and possibly the difficulty he had in cooperating over a long period with other scholars, led t…
Parliament and war
In this article, Cristiana Senigaglia shows how Max Weber, who had withdrawn from public political debate in the years before 1914, was impelled by the war to re-engage with politics. He did this in respect of a number of specific issues, like unrestricted submarine warfare, or policies of annexation, where he urged restraint in the interest of achieving a rapid negotiated peace, which would asure German security in the postwar world. In general …
Max Weber and the parliamentary bureaucracy of his time
By means of ideal-types, Weber depicts the most significant features characterizing single sociological phenomena and structures. This article analyses the general procedure concerning their formation and meaning, and then focuses on the theory of bureaucracy. In this case, there is a close relationship between theoretical construct and historical reality, since German bureaucracy between 1871 and 1918 developed into a highly-specialized, rationa…
Parlament und Presse im Zeitalter Max Webers
At the beginning of the twentieth century the German sociologist Max Weber regarded the new mass phenonmenon of the press as of major interest for sociological research. In 1909–10 he put forward two proposals for collaborative research on a grand scale into the place of the press in society, culture and politics. Only his own lawsuit with a newspaper, and possibly the difficulty he had in cooperating over a long period with other scholars, led t…
Max Weber und die probleme des parlamentarismus in deutschland am ende des ersten weltkrieges
Max Weber and the Problem of Parliamentarism in Germany at the End of the First World War At the end of the First World War Weber was concerned with the problem of the establishment of a new political system in Germany. For a short time he took part in the activities of the newly formed German Democratic Party, and he collaborated in the drawing up of the first constitutional proposal. His theoretical contribution is mainly to be found in his ess…
Analysen zur Entstehung der Massenparteien und zu ihrem Einfluß auf das Parlament
The object of this article is the analysis of Ostrogorski's, Michels' and Weber's statements on the connections between parties and Parliament. These three authors are really known as the founders of the sociology of parties, but their consideration of the relations between parties and Parliament in the time of mass-society represents an interesting component of their inquiry. Firstly, their remarks are significant in the historical respect, beca…
Between parliament und government
In this article, Cristiana Scnigaglia analyzes how, when the constitution of the new German republic was being debated at Weimar in 1919, difficulties arose because there had been very little prior debate in Germany about a republican form of government, since the permanence of the monarchical system had been generally assumed. This gave great weight to the writings of Robert Redslob, the only senior academic authority who had discussed at some l…
Die Souveränitätsfrage in Hegels Rechtsphilosophie
In this article Cristiana Senigaglia examines Hegel's treatment of the question of sovereignty in his political thought. The concept of sovereign power, as developed in the writings of Bodin had been received in German thinking in the seventeenth century and the word Souveranität adopted as the German language equivalent. But as long as Germany was not a unitary state, the concept raised special problems for German thinkers. When Hegel set out hi…
Coup d'Etat et bouleversement politique dans la conception hégélienne de l'histoire
In this article Cristiana Senigaglia seeks to elucidate Hegel's conception of the coup d'état. This is necessary because Hegel did not systematically expound his view in this writings, notably it is not treated in his central work, Die Philosophie des Rechts. But a consistent view can be found in his historical and philosophical writings. The article suggests that Hegel did consider there were circumstances in which a use of force to change an ex…
Parliament and war
In this article, Cristiana Senigaglia shows how Max Weber, who had withdrawn from public political debate in the years before 1914, was impelled by the war to re-engage with politics. He did this in respect of a number of specific issues, like unrestricted submarine warfare, or policies of annexation, where he urged restraint in the interest of achieving a rapid negotiated peace, which would asure German security in the postwar world. In general …
Parlament und Presse im Zeitalter Max Webers
At the beginning of the twentieth century the German sociologist Max Weber regarded the new mass phenonmenon of the press as of major interest for sociological research. In 1909–10 he put forward two proposals for collaborative research on a grand scale into the place of the press in society, culture and politics. Only his own lawsuit with a newspaper, and possibly the difficulty he had in cooperating over a long period with other scholars, led t…
Parlament und Presse
In his ‘Preliminary report' on the press and in the speech he made in 1910 at the German Sociologists’ Congress, Max Weber proposed a wide range of questions about the role of the press in modern society and suggested some new methodological approaches concerning this phenomenon. His project was not executed because of some difficulties occurring during the organization of the research, but his ideas are epoch-making. After some partial attempts …
Subjektivität und Politik bei Max Weber
This article examines how Max Weber reconciled his notion of bureaucracy with parliamentary institutions. Rationalizing bureaucracy was indeed the efficient motor of the modern world, itself constructed like a machine. The development of bureaucracy in modern times had separated the private and public spheres, the subjective and objective, and the apparatus of bureaucracy became the dominant partner. Nevertheless, elements of individual freedom r…
Stäche, A. (Hrsg.) Das Harte und das Weiche. Körper - Erfahrung - Konstruktion
Verfassungseinheit und Gewaltenausgleich
From his early writings on, Hegel dedicates much attention to Montesquieu and makes reference to him especially by elaborating the idea of the spirit of a nation (Volksgeist) and by affirming the close connection between culture and institutions. Nevertheless, Hegel's interest in Montesquieu's theory is not uncritical, as can be shown by his different evaluation of virtue and by his exclusive preference for constitutional monarchy. The complex re…
The German parliament after the political union of 1871
This article takes into consideration the most significant phases of the parliamentary debate after the foundation of the German state in 1871. The peculiarity of the German Constitution is that it allowed a very modern representative system based on universal suffrage on the one hand, and maintained the pre-eminence of the Executive and of bureaucratic power on the other hand. Furthermore, the new union required a complex balance between the for…
Max Weber and the parliamentary bureaucracy of his time
By means of ideal-types, Weber depicts the most significant features characterizing single sociological phenomena and structures. This article analyses the general procedure concerning their formation and meaning, and then focuses on the theory of bureaucracy. In this case, there is a close relationship between theoretical construct and historical reality, since German bureaucracy between 1871 and 1918 developed into a highly-specialized, rationa…
Nietzsches methodologischer Einfluss auf Max Weber und die Soziologie
Max Weber, the Exchange, and the possibilities of political and parliamentary intervention
Max Weber's analysis of the Exchange focuses on the one hand on the meaning of this institution for modern economy, and on the other hand on the need to create political frames regulating its activity. According to Weber, the Exchange brings about a rationalization of the financial and economic system based on quantification, globalization, and impersonality, abstracting from concrete situations and relationships. Nevertheless, this also implies …
Parliament and nation-building
The foundation of the German state in 1871 represents an interesting case of nation-building, since it accomplished political unity among different sovereign states already connected by language and culture. The considerations of Max Weber (1864–1920) are of particular relevance because they not only highlight the specific questions concerning the German nation, but they also apply to several fundamental issues about the formation of new politica…
Versailles und die Folgen. Außenpolitik zwischen Revisionismus und Verständigung 1919–1933
The book reconstructs the history of Germany between the last phase of the First World War and the end of the Weimar Republic from the standpoint of international affairs and of German foreign poli
Parliament and public opinion in Max Weber's analysis
Public opinion was converted into a mass phenomenon concerning an extended public, through the process of democratization that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. This transformation aroused the interest of social and political scientists: Ferdinand Tönnies, Hermann Oncken, and James Bryce, who highlighted relevant aspects relating to public opinion, the process of its formation, and its social and political meaning. By taking inspirat…
Korporation und Sittlichkeit
Hegel war einer der ersten Theoretiker, der die soziale Bedeutung der zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts entstehenden Marktgesellschaft reflektierte. Er betont dabei die Gefahren dieser Vergesellschaftungsform, aber auch deren emanzipative Potenziale. Letztere entfalten sich für ihn mit Hilfe der Institution der Korporation. In korporativen Vereinigungen verwandelt sich das zweckorientierte Gegeneinander der Marktakteure in wechselseitige Solidarität…
Normes, débat et délibération dans la démocratie parlementaire
This article analyzes the significance of the norm in the conceptions of Max Weber, sociologist and author of the classical work Economy and Society, and of Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School. Both authors have in fact dedicated specific studies to the sociology of right and have conferred a central function on the norms in order to guarantee a correct functioning of parliamentary democracy. For Weber and Haberma…
Weber’s Concern on Immediate Democracy and the Mediation of Parliament
Weber’s judgement on the types of immediate democracy is ambivalent; he recognizes the reduction of institutional mediation and power as well as the possibility of a more direct intervention by the people on the one hand, but he also underlines the major difficulties to find a balance between political decision making and administration, or between the exercise of power and its control. The analysis focuses on the most relevant types of immediate…
The debate on democratization and parliament in Germany from 1871 to 1918
The political setting of the German Kaiserreich founded in 1871 was based on a constitutional monarchy and endowed with a parliament (the Reichstag) elected by means of universal and democratic suffrage. Therefore, the question of democratization concerned specific issues: the extension of the vote to women and younger people, the reordering of the constituencies, and the reform of the graded suffrage in the federal states. However, the political…
Esteem and self-esteem as an interweaving polarity. Max Weber ́s analysis from the Protestant ethic to the ideal-type of politician
Although Max Weber does not specifically analyze the topic of esteem, his investigation of the Protestant ethic offers interesting insights into it. The change in mentality it engendered essentially contributed to enhancing the meaning and importance of esteem in modern society. In his analysis, Weber ascertains that esteem was fundamental to being accepted and integrated into the social life of congregations. Nevertheless, he also highlights tha…
Die Parlamentarismusdebatte in der Weimarer Republik [The debate on parliamentarism in the Weimar Republic]
From the outset of the Weimar Republic on 9 November 1918, the organization of a parliamentary democracy after the First World War and the repartition of powers between the German Parliament and the German State President aroused a lively debate about parliamentarism. The first phase of the debate was dominated by constitutional advocates who defended the form of parliamentarism created by the Weimar Constitution. In the course of time, criticism…
Der Weimarer Reichstag
Der Weimarer Reichstag: Die schleichende Ausschaltung, Entmachtung und Zerstörung eines Parlaments [The Weimar Reichstag: the creeping exclusion, disempowerment and dissolution of a parliament]." Parliaments, Estates and Representation, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Political science (26 works) · Law (25 works) · Law (24 works) · Politics (24 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Parliament (16 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (16 works) · Democracy (15 works) · German (11 works)