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The Origins of Liberal Dominance - State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-century Europe (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Liberal Dominance - State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-century Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Interests, Identities & Institutions in Comparative Politics
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How did liberal movements reshape the modern world? "Origins of
Liberal Dominance" offers a revealing account of how states,
churches, and parties joined together in France, Belgium,
Switzerland, and Germany to produce fundamentally new forms of
organization that have shaped contemporary politics.
Modern political life emerged when liberal movements sought to
establish elections, constitutions, free markets, and religious
liberty. Yet liberalism even at its height faced strong and often
successful opposition from conservatives. What explains why
liberals overcame their opponents in some countries but not in
others? This book compares successful and unsuccessful attempts to
build liberal political parties and establish liberal regimes in
France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany from 1815 to World War
I.
Andrew Gould argues that relations between states and churches set
powerful conditions on any attempt at liberalization. Liberal
movements that enhanced religious authority while reforming the
state won clerical support and successfully built liberal
institutions of government. Furthermore, liberal movements that
organized peasant backing around religious issues founded or
sustained mass movements to support liberal regimes.
"Origins of Liberal Dominance" offers striking new insights into
the emergence of modern states and regimes. It will be of interest
to political scientists, sociologists, comparative historians, and
those interested in comparative politics, regime change and
state-building, democratization, religion and politics, and
European politics.
Andrew C. Gould is Assistant Professor of Government and Kellogg
Institute Fellow, University of Notre Dame.
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