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Italy: Early Crisis and Fascist Takeover

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In the context of European parliamentary regimes between the world wars, there is one crucial question to ask in analysing the crisis of Italian democracy: why did the liberal Italian State collapse so early? Italy was not the only country where social conflicts, political disorder and economic depression exerted joint negative effects immediately after the First World War, but it was the first to surrender to the fascist challenge, ten years before the breakdown of Weimar Germany. The success of authoritarian forces in Italy was not the consequence of military intervention, but rather the outcome of a period of confused and intense democratic mass politics.

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  1. Phillipps University, Marburg, Germany

    Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  2. The Open University, Milton Keynes, England

    Jeremy Mitchell (Lecturer in Government) (Lecturer in Government)

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Tarchi, M. (2000). Italy: Early Crisis and Fascist Takeover. In: Berg-Schlosser, D., Mitchell, J. (eds) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333993774_12

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