The Invention of the Modern Republic [Hardcover]

An investigation of the origins of republican government, by some of the world's leading historians of ideas.Why are republics the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy? A team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers these questions, and examines the origins of republican governments in America and Europe.Why are republics the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy? A team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers these questions, and examines the origins of republican governments in America and Europe.Why are republics nowadays the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy? In The Invention of the Modern Republic, a team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers this question, and examines the origins of republican governments in America and Europe. Given the renewed interest at present in the functioning and evolution of democratic institutions--especially in their relation with market economies--the issues discussed here have a powerful contemporary resonance.List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the invention of the modern republic Biancamaria Fontana; 1. Ancient and modern republicanism: 'mixed constitution' and 'ephors' Wilfried Nippel; 2. Checks, balances and boundaries: the separation of powers in the constitutional debate of 1787 Bernard Manin; 3. From Utopia to repulicanism: the case of Diderot Gerolamo Imbruglia; 4. Cordeliers and Girondins: the prehistory of the republic? Patrice Gueniffey; 5. The constitutional republicanism of Emmanuel Siey?s Pasquale Pasquino; 6. The Thermidorian republic and its principles Biancamaria Fontana; 7. Francesco Mario Pagano's 'Republic of Virtue': Naples 1799 Anthony Pagden; 8. Kant, the French revolution and the definition of the republic Gareth Stedman Jones; 9. French historians and the lc"