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Examines French republicanism, and why it is that the French have retained support for the Fifth Republic for 30 years, following the previous political instability. (DCL)

In this collection of writings, leading historians of political thought and political theorists provide an overview of traditional and contemporary republicanism.

The Dubrovnik Republic existed as an autonomous political community, in complex geopolitical conditions, for no less than 450 years (1358-1808). Throughout this period the political system was neither changed nor was it seriously endangered from within. This makes the Dubrovnik Republic a unique phenomenon. The text puts forward a concise analysis of the historical-political circumstances, of the Republic's political and legal system, and of its republican ideology. Furthermore, three important theorists of the Dubrovnik republican ideology are contextualised, namely Nikola Gucetic, Tomo Basiljevic and Ivo Nadali. A closer look is provided into Gucetic's theoretical views on Dubrovnik republicanism. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the republican case for worker voice in economic enterprises based on the ideal of freedom as non-domination, and assesses its merits relative to two influential arguments for workplace democratization grounded on freedom understood as autonomy and self-determination. Two claims are advanced. The first is that the republican case for worker voice avoids difficulties associated with these two arguments. The second, however, is that the ideal of non-domination is insufficient, that an adequate understanding and defence of workplace democracy will also have to make significant reference to freedom understood as autonomy.

This article shows through Sismonde de Sismondi's work how peculiarly modern issues like the revolution, equal political rights (universal suffrage) and an industrial and commercial society contributed to renewing the identity of republicanism. That renewal took place in Europe, after the French Revolution, and in a direct confrontation with democracy rather than liberalism. The problem in relation to which Sismondi reflected on the institutions of political liberty, the republican constitution and the role of individual liberty was the unstoppable growth of equality, political and social. In his work, republicanism was intended as an answer against the emergent democratic transformation of society, with a role of moderating equality, dividing and bridling popular sovereignty and containing the immoderate propensities of democracy. The modern threat to liberty did not originate from the power of the few or of the one, but from that of the many. It originated in the majoritarian principle on which democracy relies necessarily. This principle, the republican Sismondi argued, contains the seed of the suppression of minorities, that is to say of individual liberty. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]

European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century English thinkers and political events. Bringing together a range of fresh and original essays by British and European scholars in the field of early modern intellectual history and English studies, this collection of essays revises a one-sided approach to English republicanism and widens the scope of study beyond linguistic and national boundaries by looking at English republicans and their continenta.

Introduction: Revival of Turkish Interest in Republicanism; Republicanism as a Political Tradition -- Shaping the Empire -- The Age of Transformation in Ottoman Political Thought : The Reigns of Selim III (1789-1807) and Mahmud II (1808-38) -- The Tanzimat Era (1839-76) and Islamic Republicanism of the Young Ottomans -- The Positivist Universalism and Republicanism of the Young Turks -- The Political Thought of the Young Turk Revolution -- Political Thought in the Balkan Wars and the Rise of Authoritarianism -- Ottoman Political Thought during World War I -- The War of Independence (1919-22) : Road to the Independent Turkish Republic -- The Victory of Authoritarian Republicanism -- Conclusion: The Ideology of the Early Republic

A review essay on a book by Hams Blom, John Christian Laursen and Luisa Simonutti [Eds], Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: Liberty, Patriotism, and the Common Good (Toronto, 2007).