Review. The White Terror and the political reaction after Waterloo. Resnick, D. P.

Abstract Bakunin’s anarchism on the one hand and Carl Schmitt’s State-God on the other mirror each other. Either concept is about the non-accountable, »absolute« political decision. Both modern terrorism and the political reaction to it in the »security state« follow the alternative Bakunin-Schmitt. By contrast, the »open society« of democracy needs the Christian, intelligent love of enemies to deal with its enemies without self-destruction.

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The Political Reaction to Modernity

Journal of the Historical Society ◽

10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00327.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 139-154

Author(s):

Manfred Weidhorn

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Political Reaction

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Listening to their silence? The political reaction of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions: insights from Ethiopia

The Journal of Peasant Studies ◽

10.1080/03066150.2014.993621 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 42 (3-4) ◽

pp. 517-539 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Tsegaye Moreda

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

The Political ◽

Political Reaction ◽

Land Acquisitions ◽

Large Scale Land

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The new opposition in the house of lords, 1720–3

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x00019257 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 309-329 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Clyve Jones

Keyword(s):

Political Life ◽

The Political ◽

The Public ◽

Political Reaction ◽

House Of Lords ◽

South Sea ◽

Management Techniques ◽

New Feature ◽

High Level ◽

First Time

ABSTRACTThis article looks at the membership and organization of the opposition that emerged in the house of lords between 1720 and 1723 under the leadership of William, 1st Earl Cowper. The origin of this new opposition lay in the political reaction to the extensive corruption exposed by the bursting of the South Sea Bubble, which brought together a coalition of dissident whigs and tones (both Hanoverian tories and Jacobites) who proceeded to attack the ministries of the earl of Sunderland and of Viscount Townshend and Robert Walpole for their supposed corrupt administration. The hallmark of the new opposition was the extensive campaign of protests against the opposition's defeat in votes, protests which were entered (with reasons) into the Journals of the House, and which were then published in the form of broadsheets, pamphlets, and newsletters as propaganda in an appeal to public opinion. This was the first time an opposition had indulged in an extensive and sustained campaign of influencing the public outside Westminster. This campaign required a high level of organization. This Cowper provided in imitation of some of the new management techniques being developed by the ministry to control the house of lords, plus a new feature – the daily pre-sitting meetings of the leadership to concert tactics. The legacy of the new opposition was the preservation of the concept of a loyal opposition as an acceptable part of British political life.

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Het politieke agendasettingeffect van mediastormen

Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschappen ◽

10.5117/2015.043.004.318 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Anne Hardy ◽

Julie Sevenans

Keyword(s):

Random Sample ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Prime Minister ◽

News Coverage ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Legislative Process ◽

Window Of Opportunity ◽

Political Reaction ◽

Level Analysis

The political agenda-setting effect of media storms. A story-level analysis The political agenda-setting effect of media storms. A story-level analysis This paper studies the political agenda-setting effect of media storms. Over an eight-year period (2001-2008), it examines the extent to which media storms in Belgium (Flanders) led to action in the Belgian federal Parliament. It then compares the agenda-setting effect of those media storms with the effect of a random sample of general (‘non-storm’) news coverage. Quantitative story-level analyses show that media storms, more than non-storms, lead to political reaction. In particular, they generate more consequential types of political reaction such as mentions by the Prime Minister or bills. However, an in-depth look at those instances where media storms led to the initiation of a bill, nuances these findings, in the sense that media storms not often lead to ‘new’ bills; rather, they accelerate or highlight the existing legislative process. Politicians strategically use media storms as a ‘window of opportunity’ to get their bills on the political agenda.

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