Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis
Reassessing the Interwar period
Series: Comparative Politics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 April 2020
- ISBN 9780198858249
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 245x165x20 mm
- Weight 506 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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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. Against the backdrop of the economic crisis that began in 2008 and the rise of populist parties, a new body of scholarship - frequently invoked by the media - has used interwar political developments to warn that even long-established Western democracies are fragile. Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis challenges this 'interwar analogy' based on the fact that a relatively large number of interwar democracies were able to survive the recurrent crises of the 1920s and 1930s. The main aim of this book is to understand the striking resilience of these democracies, and how they differed from the many democracies that broke down in the same period. The authors advance an explanation that emphasizes the importance of democratic legacies and the strength of the associational landscape (i.e., organized civil society and institutionalized political parties). Moreover, they underline that these factors were themselves associated with a set of deeper structural conditions, which on the eve of the interwar period had brought about different political pathways. The authors' empirical strategy consists of a combination of comparative analyses of all interwar democratic spells and illustrative case studies. The book's main takeaway point is that the interwar period shows how resilient democracy is once it has had time to consolidate. On this basis, recent warnings about the fragility of contemporary democracies in Western Europe and North America seem exaggerated - or, at least, that they cannot be sustained by interwar evidence.
Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu
The series is edited by Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston, and Jonathan Slapin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Setting the Stage
An Age of Crisis
Interwar Democracies and Dictatorships
Part II: Theoretical Framework
Pillars of Democratic Stability
Part III: Comparative Analyses
Democratic Legacies, the Associational Landscape, and Democratic Survival
Economic Crisis and Democratic Breakdown
Part IV: Case Studies
Denmark and the United Kingdom
Uruguay and France
Conclusion
Appendix I: Coding of Democratic Spells in the Interwar Period
Appendix II: Descriptive Statistics and Robustness Checks of Statistical Analyses
