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Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis.

This book explains why several democracies during the period between the two world wars broke down and others survived, and examines the extent to which present-day democracies are fragile in the face of crises.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cornell, Agnes
Other Authors: Møller, Jørgen, Skaaning, Svend-Erik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020.
Series:Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Democratization > History > 20th century.
Political stability > History > 20th century.
Democratization.
Political stability.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis: Reassessing the Interwar Period
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • Challenging the Interwar Analogy
  • Four Theoretical Perspectives on Interwar Regime Change
  • Our Argument in Brief
  • Empirical Strategy
  • The structure of the book
  • PART I: SETTING THE STAGE
  • 1: An Age of Crisis
  • The Totalitarian Ideologies
  • International Repercussions of the Russian Revolution
  • The Peace Treaties
  • Economic Crisis
  • Crisis in the International Order
  • Conclusions.
  • 2: Interwar Democracies and Dictatorships
  • Interwar Democratic Spells According to Existing Datasets
  • Coding Procedure and Conceptual Premise
  • The Schumpeterian baseline criterion
  • Interwar Democratic Spells
  • Europe and the former British settler colonies
  • Latin America
  • The Timing of the Breakdowns
  • Conclusions
  • PART II: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  • 3: Pillars of Democratic Stability
  • Structural Background Conditions
  • Socio-economic development
  • Social equality and homogeneity
  • Protestantism
  • The modern state and Weberian bureaucracy.
  • The historical roots of interwar disparities
  • Democratic Legacy
  • The Associational Landscape
  • Defining civil society
  • Civil society and democratic survival
  • Political (party) institutionalization as an integral part of the associational landscape
  • A note on political institutionalization and political parties
  • Partial substitutability between the two components of the associational landscape
  • Conclusions
  • PART III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES
  • 4: Democratic Legacies, the Associational Landscape, and Democratic Survival
  • Democratic Legacies and Interwar Democratic Stability.
  • Strength of the Associational Landscape and Interwar Democratic Survival
  • The dependent variable: democratic breakdown
  • An index measuring the associational landscape
  • Control variables
  • Statistical analysis
  • Association between Structural Conditions, Democratic Legacy, and Associational Landscape
  • Deeper historical factors and democratic legacies
  • Deeper historical factors and the associational landscape
  • Conclusions
  • 5: Economic Crisis and Democratic Breakdown
  • Previous Comparative Studies
  • Empirical Strategy
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Other Faces of Economic Crisis.
  • Making Sense of the Findings
  • Conclusions
  • PART IV: CASE STUDIES
  • 6: Denmark and the United Kingdom
  • Denmark: A Common Front against Extremism
  • The foundation
  • Danish democracy during the interwar years
  • The United Kingdom: The Hegemony of the Centre-ground
  • The foundation
  • British democracy in the interwar years
  • Conclusions
  • 7: Uruguay and France
  • Uruguay: Strong Parties amidst a Weak Civil Society
  • The foundation
  • Uruguayan democracy during the interwar period
  • The democratic breakdown, Terra's authoritarian regime, and the return to democracy.

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