POLI 212 Chapter Notes -Italian Fascism, Mark Mazower, Liberal Democracy
24 Oct 2014
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End of wwi the ancien regime was toppled. Paris peace settlement saw parliamentary democracy enthroned across europe. Left had been vanquished or forced onto the defensive nearly everywhere west of the soviet. All key political debates happening on the right. We should not assume that democracy is suited to europe. > triumphant in 1918, it was virtually extinct twenty years on. > by 1930s most europeans did not want to fight for democracy. > there were dynamic non-democratic alternatives to meet the challenges of modernity. Victory of entente forces and usa in 1918. Demand for constitutional reforms in central-eastern europe. Affirming liberal ambitions and drawing up democratic constitutions. Key to the future of democracy in europe was germany. > transitional liberal regime under the constitutionalist prince max of baden. Middle class lawyers and politicians tried to lay down the bases of new, democratic, constitutional order.
