The Experiment With Democracy in Central Europe: A Comparative Survey of the Operation of Democratic Government in Post-War Germany and in the Russian ... Succession States (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Zurcher, Arnold John

9780260666130: The Experiment With Democracy in Central Europe: A Comparative Survey of the Operation of Democratic Government in Post-War Germany and in the Russian ... Succession States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Experiment With Democracy in Central Europe: A Comparative Survey of the Operation of Democratic Government in Post-War Germany and in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Succession States

The system of parliamentary government, for instance, which they introduced from Great Britain, had little hope of survival without serious modification in these states where political parties are numerous, highly [disciplined and often class conscious. Added to its intrinsic weaknesses was the fact that in Germany and Austria the democratic constitution was adopted in the hour of defeat and national humiliation. It was to be. Expected, whether logically or not, that the new r�gime would be associated with the despair and the bitter ness which came as an aftermath of that defeat. Finally, the system which the new constitutions established came into be ing just at the time when not only the states defeated in the War but also the states which arose out of its ashes were fac ing some of the gravest problems which governments have ever been called upon to solve. That a r�gime in its swaddling clothes, fragile even when mature, should have wavered and even gone down to destruction is hardly to be wondered at.

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