Defending democracy
Subtitle: reactions to extremism in interwar Europe
By: Giovanni Capoccia.
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780801887550; 9780801880384
Subjects: Democracy -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Radicalism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Political parties -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945
Description: "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, Giovanni Capoccia studies key European nations between World Wars I and II which survived such democratic crises."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Democratic stability and democratic crisis; title: The challenges : antisystem parties; title: The defense : strategies against extremism; title: Czechoslovakia; title: Belgium; title: Finland; title: Defense of democracy : actors and strategies in comparative perspective.