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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Hardcover)
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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt
revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging
historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political
democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to
Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on
rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major
reinterpretation of European history and the question of how stable
political democracy is achieved. The barriers to inclusive
political rule, Ziblatt finds, were not inevitably overcome by
unstoppable tides of socioeconomic change, a simple triumph of a
growing middle class, or even by working class collective action.
Instead, political democracy's fate surprisingly hinged on how
conservative political parties - the historical defenders of power,
wealth, and privilege - recast themselves and coped with the rise
of their own radical right. With striking modern parallels, the
book has vital implications for today's new and old democracies
under siege.
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