Revolutionary Republicanism: Participation and Representation in 1848 France

Revolutionary Republicanism provides a history of French republicanism seen through a seminal episode of its creation – the 1848 revolution.

The process of reinventing republicanism in 1848 gave rise to two opposite understandings of republicanism: a moderate one that merely adapted the institutions of representative government to popular sovereignty, and a more radical, ‘social- democratic’ notion of republicanism, based on inclusive forms of representation and aiming at the emancipation of...