European Democratization Since 1800

by Garrard; Tolz; White

• ISBN13: 9780312223830
• ISBN10: 0312223838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The essays in this book explore the changing and constant features of the process of democratization in Europe since 1800. The editors see democratization as an intermittent process concentrated in the European context, into four periods: the first wave of the nineteenth century democratization in Western and Northern Europe; the post-Versailles stage of advance and retreat in both old-established and newly created states; the post-1945 wave amongst states and societies defeated in the World War II, distinguished by having democratic constitutions imposed upon them; and the post-1970 process in Southern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the post-Communist states of East-Central Europe.

Author Biography

John Garrard is Senior Lecturer, Vera Tolz is Lecturer, and Ralph White is Senior Research Fellow, all in the Department of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(5)
John Garrard
Vera Tolz
Ralph White
Liberal Democratic Theory: Some Reflections on Its History and Its Present	6	(21)
Adrian Oldfield
Part 1 The Nineteenth Century
Democratization in Britain	27	(23)
John Garrard
Bearing the Stamp of History: The Elitist Route to Democracy in the Netherlands	50	(27)
Robert van der Laarse
Part 2 Between the World Wars
Democracy and War	77	(19)
Ralph White
The Attempt at Democratization under Weimar	96	(20)
Stefan Berger
The Corporatist Threat and the Overthrow of the Spanish Second Republic	116	(25)
Angel Smith
Part 3 Post-1945
Restoration and Stability: The Creation of a Stable Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany	141	(22)
Mark Roseman
Part 4 Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Post-Communist East-Central Europe: Dilemmas of Democratization	163	(28)
Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone
Russia's Democratic Transition and Its Challenges	191	(15)
Vera Tolz
Insiders, Mafiosi and Stationary Bandits: Some Stories about Russian Capitalism	206	(19)
Philip Hanson
Citizenship and Democracy	225	(18)
Elizabeth Teague
Democratic Destination: The Examples of Britain and Italy	243	(21)
James Newell
Conclusions	264	(11)
John Garrard
Vera Tolz
Ralph White
Index	275