Politische Repräsentation und Partizipation / Rappresentanza politica e partecipazione

Politisch partizipieren – aber in wessen Namen?

Politische Repräsentation als Argument in frühneuzeitlichen Ständekonflikten

Tim Neu

Abstract

The estates of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire are generally regarded as representative institutions acting and speaking ‘in the name of the country’. This representative capacity is understood as an essential characteristic of the ‘Landstände’. From the perspective of a constitutional history inspired by the cultural turn, however, such characteristics are never simply given, but made; they are the result of practical sense-making, and in this case can be analyzed primarily as results of successful arguments. Accordingly, the article shows that in the first half of the 17th century, the ...