Against Popular Societies and Faction: Transatlantic Discourses of Moderation in the American, French and Dutch Republics of the 1790s

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Against Popular Societies and Faction: Transatlantic Discourses of Moderation in the American, French and Dutch Republics of the 1790s
 
Koekkoek, R.
(2019) de Haan, Ido, Lok, Matthijs (eds.), The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History, pp. 29 - 48
Palgrave Studies in Political History, pp. 29 - 48
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Abstract
René Koekkoek examines the mid-1790s efforts made by American Federalists, French Thermidorians, and Dutch Batavian revolutionaries to discredit popular societies as the embodiment of faction and party spirit, and their efforts to institutionalize moderation. Instead of institutional complexity and balance, these revolutionary moderates conceptualized political moderation in terms of the ... read more
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Keywords: ideological extremes, polarized views, third way, capitalism, socialism, fundamentalist islam, anti-islamic extremism, radicalization, intellectual history, political parties, aurelian craitu, Taverne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27415-3_2
ISSN: 2946-5176
ISBN: 978-3-030-27414-6
978-3-030-27417-7
978-3-030-27415-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan
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