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Swedish & German Liberalism - From Factions to Parties 1860-1920 (Hardcover)
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Swedish & German Liberalism - From Factions to Parties 1860-1920 (Hardcover)
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At the start of the twentieth century, political parties had the
potential to focus grass-roots interest in the development of
modern, democratic nation-states. Yet all the new parties were met
with suspicion across Europe, particularly among liberals. These
popular misgivings and the way the liberals nevertheless managed to
build a party are the subject of this book. In this book, historian
Martin Aberg argues that because of liberalism's individualistic
traits, which left liberals less susceptible to political
organisation on a mass basis, party members had to come to an
uneasy compromise between individual and collective action. Aberg
compares two regions -- Varmland in Sweden and Schleswig-Holstein
in Germany -- which historically both had a significant liberal
presence. Despite its organisational shortcomings, liberalism in
Sweden paved the way for the peaceful democratisation of the state.
In Germany, however, liberalism turned conservative, foreshadowing
the extreme nationalism and Nazism that was to come. Aberg argues
that the peculiarities of organisational behaviour go some way to
explain the very different outcomes.
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