European Democratization since 1800 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333738942 ISBN 13: 9780333738948

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

Will democracy survive in the post-Communist states of East-Central Europe and Russia?

The book seeks to answer this great question by identifying the factors associated with the success and failure of previous attempts at democratization in Europe. A historical and comparative approach, focusing on a series of important case-studies, illuminates the issues at stake.

The case-studies are located within four key periods in the history of European democratization since 1800: the `successful' examples of Britain and the Netherlands are taken from the first wave in nineteenth-century Western and Northern Europe; the second, post-Versailles stage of advance and retreat, is considered in two celebrated cases of failure - the German Weimar Republic and the Spanish Second Republic; the case of West Germany is analysed as a feature of the third post-1945 phase; and the problematic fate of the post-Communist states of East-Central Europe and Russia dominates the post-1989 years.

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About the Author

JOHN GARRARD is Senior Lecturer in British history at the University of Salford. His publications include The English And Immigration: English Reaction to Jewish Emigration 1880-1910 and Leadership and Power in the Nineteenth Century Towns.

VERA TOLZ is Lecturer in Russian history and politics at the University of Salford. Her publications include The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System and Russian Academicians and the Revolution.

RALPH WHITE is Senior Fellow in the Department of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. He edited a volume on Resistance in Europe 1939-1945 and published chapters and articles on interwar Europe.

Synopsis

This volume examines factors associated with success and failure of historical episodes of democratization in Europe, giving a historical and comparative approach. It focuses on a series of important case studies, including Britain and the Netherlands, the Weimar Republic, Spanish Second Republic, the German Federal Republic, and the post-Communist studies of East Europe and Russia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333738942
• ISBN 13: 9780333738948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Garrard J., Tolz V., White R.