

Debatregels en de toegang tot de democratie, 1870-1940” (Rationality in Debate. This workshop is part of the research project “Redelijkheid omstreden. KNAW, Het Trippenhuis, KloveniersburgJV Amsterdam
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Limited places available – your registration will be confirmed. Discussant: Carla Hoetink, Radboud Universityġ6.15-16.45: Learning from the Outside: Parliament’s Response to Popular Meetings in Germany and The Netherlands, 1870-1914, Anne Heyer, Leiden University & Anne Petterson, Radboud UniversityĪttendance is free. Discussant: Adriejan van Veen, Radboud Universityġ5.30-16.15: Ruling the Rally in the Name of Democracy: Political Parties and ‘Popular’ Voices in West Germany’s Electoral Communication, 1940s to 1960s, Claudia Gatzka, Freiburg University. Discussant: Ido de Haan, Utrecht Universityġ4.15-15.00: Gatherings of Laughter: Public Meetings in the Early Stages of Democratization, Belgium, 1872-1893 Discussant: Maartje Janse, Leiden Universityġ3.30-14.15: In All Seriousness: Laughter in Bismarck’s Reichstag, Theo Jung, Freiburg University. Programmeġ0.00-10.30:Introduction: Two Traditions of Deliberation? Henk te Velde, Leiden Universityġ0.30-11.15: Keynote | Public Politics and Public Spheres in the Making of Democracy, Jon Lawrence, University of Exeterġ1.30-12.15: The Art of Making Oneself Heard: Political Audibility in and beyond Europe’s Second Chambers in the Late Nineteenth Century, Josephine Hoegaerts, University of Helsinki. Between 19, at least 30 countries made transitions to democracy, just about doubling the number of democratic.

What did political newcomers have to do in order to be listened to? What meaning did parliamentary rules have for citizens participating in public political discussions? And above all, how did they develop norms and practices for the conduct of democratic politics? To answer these questions, we encourage a political-cultural approach in which the rules of political debate are not self-evident, but rather the subject of an ongoing political struggle about the democratisation of the political system. Political practices are central to this analysis. In this workshop, we explore how politicians and citizens in the 19th and 20th century tried to resolve the tension between reasonableness and accessibility of political debate, both in and outside Western European parliaments. Organisation: Anne Heyer (Leiden University), Anne Petterson (Radboud University), Henk te Velde (Leiden University) 21 October 2022, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
