Author: WANG Yaping (Professor of IEC, Tianjin Normal University)

Publisher: The Commercial Press

Publication Date: August 2024

ISBN:978-7-100-23204-3

Introduction

This volume examines the changes in European governments, or European political institutions, since antiquity. It argues that in the early and high Middle Ages, it was not mechanisms but human relations that played a dominant role in the political structure of Western Europe. Since the 14th century, Western Europe has seen the beginnings of a modern state administration and the gradual formation of modern government. Focusing on the evolution of political institutions in France, England and Germany, it seeks to illustrate the different features that characterized each country in the historical trajectory from the Middle Ages to the modern times, with a view to providing an objective understanding of the contemporary European countries.