The Populist Foundations of Democracy
A Conceptual History of "the People" [Folket] in the Constitutional Struggles in Denmark, 1830-1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3141143 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikkel Flohr (0000-0002-6465-9870, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-39 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975623000486 |
| OpenAlex | W4389790433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article reconstructs and analyses the conceptual history of "the people" [Folket] in modern Danish history. It applies qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze new data and archival materials and provides a detailed study of the construction, development and central role of populist conceptions of "the people" in the constitutional struggles between 1830 and 1920 that transformed Denmark from an absolute monarchy into a parliamentary democracy. I argue that these populist conceptualizations of "the people" shaped and fostered the emergence of the ideas and practices of parliamentary democracy as "the people's rule" [Folkestyre]. This case study thereby challenges contemporary assumptions about an inherently adversarial relationship between populism and democracy. Moreover, it makes a number of empirical and analytical contributions to the existing historiography, as well as the literature on the construction of "the people," democracy and populism
Conceptual history · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Positive economics · Sociology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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Populism as a Threat to Liberal Democracy
The Principles of Representative Government
Dictionary of Untranslatables
Me the People
Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics
Futures Past
The Development of Political Theory
Vision and Method in Historical Sociology
Print-culture and the advent of nationalism. State-patriotism and the problem of nationality in the popular culture of the printing press during the period of “Vormärz” in Denmark
En begrebshistorisk analyse af ”folkets selvstyre” i forfatningskampen
Concentration or representation
The People vs. Democracy
Religion, Law, and the Growth of Constitutional thought, 1150-1650
The folk’ish heritage in Nordic democracy
The meaning of historical terms and concepts
Handbook of Historical Sociology
Democracy and political theory
Populism versus Democracy
Civil society, populism and religion
Popular Sovereignty, Democracy, and the Constituent Power
Can Popular Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism from Radical Democracy to Populism
The Populist Zeitgeist
Basic Concepts in History
On the Demos and Its Kin
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |