Democracy and dictatorship in Europe : from the ancien régime to the present day / Sheri Berman

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Sheri, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (561 pages)

Other Title:

The Democracy and dictatorship in europe

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years, dictatorship rather than democracy had been the norm. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time. But by the beginning of the twenty-first century the story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent's newer democracies were backsliding toward dictatorship, while citizens in many of its older democracies began questioning democracy's functioning and even legitimacy. Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe traces the long history of democracy in its cradle, Europe. It takes readers through more than two centuries of turmoil, revolutions, fascism, civil wars, communism and-finally-the rebuilding of democracy in Western Europe after 1945 and the emergence of democracy in Eastern Europe after 1989. Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe explains why democracy proved so difficult to achieve in Europe and draws lessons from Europe's past that can help us understand the conditions necessary for democracy to flourish.

Contents:

Contents: Acknowledgments - 1. uestions about Political Development - 2. he Ancien Régime - 3. nglish Exceptionalism I - 4. he French Revolution - 51848. - 6. he French Third Republic - 7. talian Unification - 8. erman Unification - 9. he Struggle for Democracy in Interwar France - 10. nglish Exceptionalism II - 11. he Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Fascism in Italy - 12. he Collapse of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of National Socialism in Germany - 13. olitical Development in Spain - 14. he Consolidation of Democracy in Western Europe - 15. he Transition to Communist Dictatorships in East-Central Europe - 16. he Transition to Democracy in Spain - 17. he Transition to Democracy in East-Central Europe - 18. essons from Europe - Notes - Index

Notes:

Includes Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-755189-0

0-19-937321-3

0-19-937320-5

OCLC:

1081001154