"This book provides a novel account of the decades following the Second World War in the western half of Europe through the prism of its democratisation. Previo

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A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years follow

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and

Kalyvas also lays a foundation for a theory of the Christian Democratic phenomenon which would specify the conditions under which confessional parties succeed a