The Resilience of the Old Regime
Paths Around Democracy in Europe, 1832–1919
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-71071-8 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-71071-8 (ISBN)
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Reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe, arguing that Pre WWI Europe was not dominated by liberal democracies but by authoritarian regimes that adapted to mass politics. For graduate students and political scientists with interests in democracy, authoritarianism and European political development.
In The Resilience of the Old Regime, David Art reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe through the lens of authoritarian resilience. He argues that non-democrats succeeded to a very large degree in managing, diverting, disrupting, and repressing democratic movements until the end of the First World War. This was true both in states political scientists have long considered either full democracies or democratic vanguards (such as the UK and Sweden), as well as in others (such as Germany and Italy) that appeared to be democratizing. He challenges both the Whiggish view that democracy in the West moved progressively forward, and the influential theory that threats of revolution explain democratization. Drawing on extensive historical sources and data, Art recasts European political development from 1832–1919 as a period in which competitive oligarchies and competitive authoritarian regimes predominated.
In The Resilience of the Old Regime, David Art reevaluates the so-called first wave of democratization in Western Europe through the lens of authoritarian resilience. He argues that non-democrats succeeded to a very large degree in managing, diverting, disrupting, and repressing democratic movements until the end of the First World War. This was true both in states political scientists have long considered either full democracies or democratic vanguards (such as the UK and Sweden), as well as in others (such as Germany and Italy) that appeared to be democratizing. He challenges both the Whiggish view that democracy in the West moved progressively forward, and the influential theory that threats of revolution explain democratization. Drawing on extensive historical sources and data, Art recasts European political development from 1832–1919 as a period in which competitive oligarchies and competitive authoritarian regimes predominated.
David Art is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He is the author of The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge, 2006) and Inside the Radical Right (Cambridge, 2011) and is a faculty affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
1. The first wave and the study of democracy; 2. Paths around democracy in Europe; 3. Designing competitive Oligarchy in the United Kingdom; 4. The European Origins of competitive authoritarianism; 5. Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian England; 6. Authoritarian resilience in Northern Europe; 7. Competitive Oligarchy to competitive authoritarianism in Italy; 8. World war one and democratization in Europe; 9. Conclusion.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 250 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-71071-0 / 1009710710 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-71071-8 / 9781009710718 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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