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In war's wake : international conflict and the fate of liberal democracy
\"War has diverse and seemingly contradictory effects on liberal democratic institutions and processes. It has led democracies to abandon their principles, expanding executive authority and restricting civil liberties, but it has also prompted the development of representative parliamentary institutions. It has undercut socioeconomic reform, but it has also laid the basis for the modern welfare state. This landmark volume brings together distinguished political scientists, historians, and sociologists to explore the impact of war on liberal democracy - a subject far less studied than the causes of war but hardly less important. Three questions drive the analysis: How does war shape the transition to and durability of democracy? How does war influence democratic contestation? How does war transform democratic participation? Employing a wide range of methods, this volume assesses what follows in the wake of war. It is an urgent question for scholars, and even more for citizens, especially in our anxious post-9/11 age\"-- Provided by publisher.
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War and Democracy
Challenging the conventional wisdom that mass
mobilization warfare fosters democratic reform and expands
economic, social, and political rights, War
and Democracy reexamines the effects of war
on domestic politics by focusing on how wartime states either
negotiate with or coerce organized labor, policies that profoundly
affect labor's beliefs and aspirations. Because labor
unions frequently play a central role in advancing democracy and
narrowing inequalities, their wartime interactions with the state
can have significant consequences for postwar politics.
Comparing Britain and Italy during and after World War I,
Elizabeth Kier examines the different strategies each government
used to mobilize labor for war and finds that total war did little
to promote political, civil, or social rights in either country.
Italian unions anticipated greater worker management and a \"land to
the peasants\" program as a result of their wartime service; British
labor believed its wartime sacrifices would be repaid with \"homes
for heroes\" and the extension of social rights. But Italy's unjust
and coercive policies radicalized Italian workers (prompting a
fascist backlash) and Britain's just and conciliatory policies
paradoxically undermined broader democratization in Britain. In
critiquing the mainstream view that total war advances democracy,
War and Democracy reveals how politics during war
transforms societal actors who become crucial to postwar political
settlements and the prospects for democratic reform.
eBook
War and Democracy
Challenging the conventional wisdom that mass
mobilization warfare fosters democratic reform and expands
economic, social, and political rights, War
and Democracy reexamines the effects of war
on domestic politics by focusing on how wartime states either
negotiate with or coerce organized labor, policies that profoundly
affect labor's beliefs and aspirations. Because labor
unions frequently play a central role in advancing democracy and
narrowing inequalities, their wartime interactions with the state
can have significant consequences for postwar politics.
Comparing Britain and Italy during and after World War I,
Elizabeth Kier examines the different strategies each government
used to mobilize labor for war and finds that total war did little
to promote political, civil, or social rights in either country.
Italian unions anticipated greater worker management and a \"land to
the peasants\" program as a result of their wartime service; British
labor believed its wartime sacrifices would be repaid with \"homes
for heroes\" and the extension of social rights. But Italy's unjust
and coercive policies radicalized Italian workers (prompting a
fascist backlash) and Britain's just and conciliatory policies
paradoxically undermined broader democratization in Britain. In
critiquing the mainstream view that total war advances democracy,
War and Democracy reveals how politics during war
transforms societal actors who become crucial to postwar political
settlements and the prospects for democratic reform.
eBook