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Western Europe's Democratic Age - 1945-1968 (Hardcover)
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Western Europe's Democratic Age - 1945-1968 (Hardcover)
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A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political
force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What
happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic
revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's
Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of
how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of
parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe-and how this
democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the
twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Conway
describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built
by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the
consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of
Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and
female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new
political forces-primarily Christian and social democratic-that
espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the
people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship that
reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous society. This
democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of
class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as
well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an
explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s,
and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the
late twentieth century. Western Europe's Democratic Age is a
compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of
European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its
future.
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