<p><b>A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century</b><br><br>What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In <i>Western Europe''s Democratic Age</i><i>,</i> 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.<br><br>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 espouse
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This book investigates how political actors and more particularly members of parliaments have reacted to Brexit to assess its long-term consequences. It is beneficial for all interested in European Studies, European Union Politics and Elections. It was...
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The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing...
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Marcy P. Lascano examines the philosophical systems of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway. Cavendish and Conway are both known for their monism, i.e., the view that there is only one kind of substance in the world, which is capable of self-motion and...
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