Western Europe's Democratic Age (eBook)

1945-1968

Martin Conway (Autor)

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2020
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20460-4 (ISBN)

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A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe-and how this democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century.Drawing on a wide range of sources, Conway describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new political forces-primarily Christian and social democratic-that espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship that reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous society.This democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s, and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the late twentieth century.Western Europe's Democratic Age is a compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Schlagworte: 20th century • activism • age of extremes • Algeria • Anti-Communism • authoritarianism • Bourgeoisie • Britain • British • bureaucrat • Calculation • Capitalism • Central Europe • Centre-left politics • Centre-right politics • Charles de Gaulle • Christian Democracy • Citizenship • civil liberties • Civil Society • Coalition Government • Cold War • Colonialism • communism • Corporatism • Criticism • Criticism of democracy • czechoslovakia • dark continent • Decision-Making • Democracy • Democratization • Dictatorship • Direct Democracy • economic democracy • Election • Elite • Employment • Eric Hobsbawm • Europe • European Common Market • European Democracy (Cyprus) • European postwar history • European Union • Europe’s Troubled Peace • Federal Republic • France • French history • German History • Germany • Governance • Government • hegemony • history of democracy • History of postwar Europe • hostility • Ideology • Institution • Intelligentsia • Italian History • Italy • Konrad Jarausch • Legislation • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Manifesto • Mark Mazower • Marshall Plan • Marxism • mass politics • middle class • Modernity • nation state • NATO • Nazism • parliamentary system • People's democracy (Marxism–Leninism) • political alliance • Political Campaign • political class • Political culture • political movement • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political structure • Political System • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • postwar • Post-War • post World War 2 Europe • post World War II Europe • Procedural democracy • proportional representation • Protest • radical change • Radicalism (historical) • Radical right (United States) • Raymond Aron • Referendum • Regime • Representative Democracy • rhetoric • right-wing politics • Ruler • Social Class • social conflict • Social Democracy • Social Justice • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Spain • Spanish History • state socialism • Subversion • Suffrage • tom buchanan • Tony Judt • Totalitarianism • Trade Union • Twentieth century • Types of democracy • United Kingdom • Vichy France • Voting • Weimar Republic • welfare • Welfare State • Western Europe • west german • West Germany
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20460-8 / 0691204608
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20460-4 / 9780691204604