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Defending Democracy:

Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe
  • ISBN-13: 9780801880384
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Giovanni Capoccia
  • Price: AUD $124.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2005
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia studies key European nations between World Wars I and II which survived such democratic crises.A comprehensive and thoughtful historical analysis of the democracies of interwar Europe, Defending Democracy provides a unique perspective on the many lessons to be learned from their successes and failures. With this exclusively empirical investigative approach, Capoccia develops a methodology for analyzing contemporary democracies -- such as Algeria, Turkey, Israel, and others -- where similar political conditions are present. Given the rise of terrorism and the persistence of extremism in both established and new democracies today, continued research and dialogue on the defense of democracy are necessary for its preservation.

Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Theoretical Framework1. Democratic Stability and Democratic Crisis2. The Challenges: Antisystem Parties3. The Defense: Strategies against ExtremismPart II: Case Studies4. Czechoslovakia5. Belgium6. FinlandPart III: Comparative Perspectives7. Defense of Democracy: Actors and Strategies in Comparative Perspective8. ConclusionAppendix A: Party Names and TranslationsAppendix B: Government Coalitions and Alignments in Presidential ElectionsAppendix C: Anti-extremist Legislation in Czechoslovakia, Finland, and BelgiumNotesBibliographyIndex

""Giovanni Capoccia develops a rigorously tested argument about elite strategies of responding to extremism by focusing on interwar Europe.""

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