Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
Democracy Paradox
English - May 18, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBGovernment Science Social Sciences democracy political science politics philosophy political theory conservatism liberalism polarization constitution human rights Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the 19th century Europe had thought that they had moved towards liberalism, enlightenment, rationality, progress, that stuff like mass warfare was over and it wouldn't come back. And then you have four years of senseless, mass slaughter, they just totally destroyed or challenged those ideas of humankind getting better off, progress of humankind getting more civilized. In retrospect, it's hard to imagine the coincidence of deep challenges and crises that wrecked the interwar years.
Kurt Weyland
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Kurt Weyland is a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the new book Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years.
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Assault on Democracy: Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism During the Interwar Years by Kurt Weyland
"The Real Lessons of the Interwar Years" by Agnes Cornell, Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning in Journal of Democracy, July 2017
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan
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