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In terms of political stability Dutch politics began the interwar period in rather favourable conditions. First, the Netherlands had been neutral during the First World War in which all its neighbours were involved on one side or the other. This isolation forced the central actors in Dutch politics to compromise after a period of intense political conflict in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Aarebrot, F. (2000). The Netherlands: Early Compromise and Democratic Stability. 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_13
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