Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis
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Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2020
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| Series: | Comparative Politics Ser. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis: Reassessing the Interwar Period -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Challenging the Interwar Analogy -- Four Theoretical Perspectives on Interwar Regime Change -- Our Argument in Brief -- Empirical Strategy -- The structure of the book -- PART I: SETTING THE STAGE -- 1: An Age of Crisis -- The Totalitarian Ideologies -- International Repercussions of the Russian Revolution -- The Peace Treaties -- Economic Crisis -- Crisis in the International Order -- Conclusions
- 2: Interwar Democracies and Dictatorships -- Interwar Democratic Spells According to Existing Datasets -- Coding Procedure and Conceptual Premise -- The Schumpeterian baseline criterion -- Interwar Democratic Spells -- Europe and the former British settler colonies -- Latin America -- The Timing of the Breakdowns -- Conclusions -- PART II: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 3: Pillars of Democratic Stability -- Structural Background Conditions -- Socio-economic development -- Social equality and homogeneity -- Protestantism -- The modern state and Weberian bureaucracy
- The historical roots of interwar disparities -- Democratic Legacy -- The Associational Landscape -- Defining civil society -- Civil society and democratic survival -- Political (party) institutionalization as an integral part of the associational landscape -- A note on political institutionalization and political parties -- Partial substitutability between the two components of the associational landscape -- Conclusions -- PART III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES -- 4: Democratic Legacies, the Associational Landscape, and Democratic Survival -- Democratic Legacies and Interwar Democratic Stability
- Strength of the Associational Landscape and Interwar Democratic Survival -- The dependent variable: democratic breakdown -- An index measuring the associational landscape -- Control variables -- Statistical analysis -- Association between Structural Conditions, Democratic Legacy, and Associational Landscape -- Deeper historical factors and democratic legacies -- Deeper historical factors and the associational landscape -- Conclusions -- 5: Economic Crisis and Democratic Breakdown -- Previous Comparative Studies -- Empirical Strategy -- Statistical Analysis -- Other Faces of Economic Crisis
- Making Sense of the Findings -- Conclusions -- PART IV: CASE STUDIES -- 6: Denmark and the United Kingdom -- Denmark: A Common Front against Extremism -- The foundation -- Danish democracy during the interwar years -- The United Kingdom: The Hegemony of the Centre-ground -- The foundation -- British democracy in the interwar years -- Conclusions -- 7: Uruguay and France -- Uruguay: Strong Parties amidst a Weak Civil Society -- The foundation -- Uruguayan democracy during the interwar period -- The democratic breakdown, Terra's authoritarian regime, and the return to democracy