This introductory essay, firstly, offers a comparative, historical perspective on the
transformation of petitioning into a vehicle for mass popular politics across North America …

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with
expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a …

En este texto se traza la historia de las recogidas de firmas impulsadas por activistas
católicos españoles entre 1812—veinte mil firmas contra la abolición de la Inquisición—y …

The history of political parties is closely connected to the history of democracy. Modern
parties emerging in the second half of the nineteenth century established a close …

The Netherlands is blessed with abundant water, flat countryside and an openness to trade.
This has helped to propel the agricultural sector to be one of the most productive in the …

Representation has, in one form or another, been one of the cornerstones of organised
societies throughout their history. It is also an extensively studied topic in the fields of …

Este artículo tiene como objetivo descubrir el sentido de la democracia en Colombia en tres
tiempos: el primero, representativo (1810-1991); el segundo, participativo (1991-2022) y; el …

The nineteenth-century Catholic campaigns for Pope Pius IX, which span from 1848 to 1878,
comprise about one hundred thousand addresses containing more than thirty-eight million …

El estudio de las peticiones colectivas en el Reino Unido se ha centrado por lo general en
campañas progresistas, reformistas o liberales, y movimientos tales como el antiesclavismo …

In this article, we study the changing position of parliament regarding public meetings in
Germany and the Netherlands between 1870 and 1914. In the second half of the nineteenth …