Books
Forthcoming, The Creation of ‘Liberal Democracy’ in France and Britain, 1919-2001, under contract with Palgrave’s Studies in Political History, publication planned for late 2026
2024, “At the sound of the new word spoken”: Le mot démocratie en Grande-Bretagne, 1770-1920, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes
2017, La démocratie hasardeuse : essai sur le retour du tirage au sort en politique, Montréal : Éditions XYZ
Recent peer-reviewed articles (single authored)
2025, “‘True liberal democracy [...] belongs to Napoléon III’: The rise and fall of démocratie libérale in the French Second Empire”, Journal of the History of Ideas
2025, “From démodée to defended : The uses of ‘démocratie libérale’ in France, 1920s–1970s”, French Studies
2025, “Liberal Democracy: From Oxymoron to Celebrated Concept, British and French Discourses, 1968–2001”, Politics and Governance
2024, “Friend or Foe? British Receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885”, British Politics
2021, “’Woman Suffrage Would Undermine the Stable Foundation on Which Democratic Government is Based’: British Democratic Antisuffragists, 1904–1914”, Theoretical Practice
2021, “Between Panacea and Poison : ‘Democracy’ in British Socialist Thought, 1881-1891”, Intellectual History Review
2020, “From Antagonist to Protagonist: ‘Democracy’ and ‘People’ in British Parliamentary Debates, 1775–1885”, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Recent peer-reviewed articles (co-authored)
2025, H. Bonin, P. Ihalainen, B. Janssen, J. Marjanen, and R. Turunen, “Extension or Expansion? Quantitative Conceptual Analysis of Parliamentary Uses of ‘Democratic’ in Sweden and Britain, 1950s-1990s”, Contributions to the History of Concepts
2025, H. Bonin, P. Ihalainen, and Z. Haaparine, “From Greater Participation to Reinforced Representation: On UK, French and German Parliamentarians Debating ‘Democracy’, 2000–2019”, Redescriptions
2025, V. Guillin and H. Bonin, “Est-ce ainsi que les philosophes meurent ? : La première réception posthume de John Stuart Mill en France (1873-1874)”, Philosophiques
2024, H. Bonin, Z. Kergomard, P. Ihalainen and I. Herrmann, “Importable or exceptional? Swiss direct democratic instruments in French and German parliaments, 2000-2019”, Parliament, Estates and Representation
2023, Z. Wüthrich, S. Baeckelandt and H. Bonin, “Flying Without Instruments? The Deliberative Turn of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council”, Journal of Deliberative Democracy
2022 [2020], H. Bonin and A. Plassart, “ Democratic Struggle or National Uprising? The Canadian Rebellions in British Political Thought, 1835–1840”, Global Intellectual History
2019, H. Bonin and F. Dupuis-Déri, “Quelle approche pour quelle histoire des idées politiques ?”, Revue française d’histoire des idées politiques
Edited volume
Forthcoming, R. Turunen and H. Bonin (eds.), Reading Parliaments in the Digital Age, Finnish Literature Society (SKS), accepted, publication planned for late 2026.