Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Martin Conway Believes "Democracy Owes its Durability Not to its Principles but to its Flexibility." Democracy in Western Europe from 1945 to 1968
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Martin Conway Believes "Democracy Owes its Durability Not to its Principles but to its Flexibility." Democracy in Western Europe from 1945 to 1968
Where you and I and, I think, many others start from an assumption that somehow there is a thing called democracy and we sort of know what it is. But the diversity within democracy is far larger than that. You know, there's clear big institutional temperamental differences between visions of representatives ruling, people ruling, and so on. All these sorts of things are different models of democracy and therefore the word democracy in some respects becomes rather meaningless.
Martin Conway
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945—1968 here.
Martin Conway is the author of the new book Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945—1968 and a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford.
Key Highlights Include
- Why Democracy Became Part of Western Europe's Identity
- How Democracy was a Process of Continual Negotiation
- The Distinct Characteristics of Democracy in Western Europe
- An Account of the Transition from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic in France
- Lessons for Democracy Today from Western Europe's Past
Key Links
Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Martin Conway
Learn more about Martin Conway at Balliol College at the University of Oxford
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman
Democracy Paradox Podcast
Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
Michael Hughes on the History of Democracy in Germany
More Episodes from the Podcast
More Information
Democracy Group
Apes of the State created all Music
Email the show at [email protected]
Follow on Twitter @DemParadox
Follow on Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast
100 Books on Democracy
Support the show
View all episodes
By Justin Kempf
4.7
7777 ratings
Where you and I and, I think, many others start from an assumption that somehow there is a thing called democracy and we sort of know what it is. But the diversity within democracy is far larger than that. You know, there's clear big institutional temperamental differences between visions of representatives ruling, people ruling, and so on. All these sorts of things are different models of democracy and therefore the word democracy in some respects becomes rather meaningless.
Martin Conway
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945—1968 here.
Martin Conway is the author of the new book Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945—1968 and a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford.
Key Highlights Include
- Why Democracy Became Part of Western Europe's Identity
- How Democracy was a Process of Continual Negotiation
- The Distinct Characteristics of Democracy in Western Europe
- An Account of the Transition from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic in France
- Lessons for Democracy Today from Western Europe's Past
Key Links
Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Martin Conway
Learn more about Martin Conway at Balliol College at the University of Oxford
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman
Democracy Paradox Podcast
Kurt Weyland Distinguishes Between Fascism and Authoritarianism
Michael Hughes on the History of Democracy in Germany
More Episodes from the Podcast
More Information
Democracy Group
Apes of the State created all Music
Email the show at [email protected]
Follow on Twitter @DemParadox
Follow on Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast
100 Books on Democracy
Support the show
More shows like Democracy Paradox
View all
The Truth of the Matter
249 Listeners
Intelligence Squared
783 Listeners
Foreign Policy Live
603 Listeners
War on the Rocks
1,081 Listeners
Sinica Podcast
613 Listeners
ChinaPower
209 Listeners
The Lawfare Podcast
6,299 Listeners
The President’s Inbox
712 Listeners
The Good Fight
901 Listeners
The Joe Walker Podcast
124 Listeners
The Realignment
2,435 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
16,053 Listeners
Ones and Tooze
345 Listeners
The Foreign Affairs Interview
439 Listeners
Past Present Future
323 Listeners