MAIJA JANSSON is Director of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History and teaches in the Yale University History Department, USA.

Introduction: Realities of Representation; M.Jansson PART I: ENGLAND The Representation of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain; H.T.Dickinson Parliament and the Idea of Political Accountability in Early Modern Britain; P.Seaward Boroughmongering, Biography, and the Reform of Parliament: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale, Gordon Turnbull PART II: FRANCE The Unrepresentable French; D. Bell PART III: GERMANY Noble Corporations and Provincial Diets in the Ecclesiastical Principalities of the Holy Roman Empire; R.G. Asch PART IV: IRELAND Power, Politics and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland; J.Ohlmeyer PART V: SCANDINAVIA Repression and Representation: Political Culture in Early Modern Scandinavia; K.J.V. Jespersen PART VI: SPAIN An Unbalanced Representation: the Nature and Function of the Cortes of Castile in the Habsburg Period (1538-1698) - J.I.Fortea PART VII: EUROPEAN AMERICA Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern European Empires in America - J.P.Greene Governing a Colony pas commes les autres: the Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest; [...] Conclusion: New Approaches to Early Modern Representation; S.Pincus Afterword: Representative Government: How Sure a Thing?; R.Zaller