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Zusatztext Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. Informationen zum Autor Pepijn Corduwener is interested in the contemporary history of democracy in Europe. His publications include The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe (2017) and 1989 and the West. Western Europe since the End of the Cold War (2019, co-edited with Eleni Braat), while he has also published in Contemporary European History, the Historical Journal, Comparative Political Studies and The Journal of Political Ideologies. He has been a visiting scholar at the School of Government of the LUISS University in Rome and the Centre for European History, Oxford University and currently teaches history at Utrecht University. Klappentext The Rise and Fall of the People's Parties explores the striking parallels between the history of democracy and that of the people's parties since 1918. It demonstrates that understanding the rise and fall of the people's parties is pivotal to understanding the contemporary crisis of democracy. Zusammenfassung The Rise and Fall of the People's Parties explores the striking parallels between the history of democracy and that of the people's parties since 1918. It demonstrates that understanding the rise and fall of the people's parties is pivotal to understanding the contemporary crisis of democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The people's parties and democracy in past and present Part I. The making and breaking of party democracy, 1918-1945 1: 1. The end of the War: party democracy and the legacies of the nineteenth century 2: Blueprints of the people's party and the challenge of polarization in the 1920s 3: Crisis and collapse: the people's party in the clash of competing conceptions of mass politics 4: Democracy's interwar crisis as learning experience Part II. People's party democracy in postwar Europe, 1945-1968 5: Rethinking party politics after the War 6: The Christian democrat decade 7: Socialists from class to people's parties 8: Consensus, collaboration, compromise: democracy as 'super-ideology' in the 1960s Part III. The fall of the people's parties and the crisis of the postwar model of democracy, 1968-2000 9: The challenge of 1968 and the aim to reaffirm the primacy of the people's parties 10: The challenge of 1973 and governability as leading purpose 11: The 'open party' and its limits in the 1980s 12: The decline of the people's party, fast and slow Epilogue. Democracy without people's parties? ...
