Screen LibraryDemocratic stability in an age of crisis : reassessing the interwar period /
The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. It has recently become popular to make present-day analogies to...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Comparative Politics
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| Summary: |
The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. It has recently become popular to make present-day analogies to the political developments of the 1920s and 1930s. This book asks whether such historical analogies make sense and why some democracies were able to cope with the stress of interwar crises whereas others were not. Focusing on democratic stability in Europe, the former British settler colonies, an |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198858249 0198858248 |
| Index Number: | JN12 |
| CLC: | D750.09-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.09-09/C814 |