Mass as a Political Entity? The Emergence of ‘the Masses’ as a Political Actor in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
Published online on April 01, 2026
Abstract
European History Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
By the end of the nineteenth century, ordinary people had become an essential feature of a new legitimizing strategy: instead of the quality of political representatives, it was the quantity of the represented that legitimized power. This contribution ...
By the end of the nineteenth century, ordinary people had become an essential feature of a new legitimizing strategy: instead of the quality of political representatives, it was the quantity of the represented that legitimized power. This contribution ...