Authoritarianism And Democracy In Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses; Editor: Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Editor: Mitchell, Jeremy; Hardback; Book

Editor: Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Editor: Mitchell, Jeremy
Advances in Political Science; Hardback; Book; Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index
368 pages
Published: October 2002
Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0333966066

Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39 offers a comprehensive analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe. The contributors explore factors such as thehistorical, social-structural and political-cultural backgrounds of the policies that European countries attempted to implement to counter the world economic crisis of 1929. The analysis serves as animportant backdrop for the assessment of current democratic developments in former communist Europe and highlights some of the problems and risks involved in the transition process.This analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe explores factors such as the historical, social structural and political cultural backgrounds of the policies that European countries attempted to implement to counter the world economic crisis of 1929.