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The Frustrated Peace? The Political, Social and Economic Impact of the Versailles Treaty

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    SYSNO ASEP0543791
    Document TypeM - Monograph Chapter
    R&D Document TypeMonograph Chapter
    TitleConstitutional Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe after the Great War
    Author(s) Slavíček, Jan (HIU-Y)
    Source TitleThe Frustrated Peace? The Political, Social and Economic Impact of the Versailles Treaty. - Wien : new academic press, 2021 / Horčička V. ; Němeček J. ; Wakounig M. ; Kessler V. ; Valkoun J. - ISBN 978-3-7003-2206-1
    Pagess. 263-277
    Number of pages15 s.
    Number of pages310
    Publication formPrint - P
    Languageeng - English
    CountryAT - Austria
    KeywordsComparative Politics ; Inter-war ; East-Central Europe ; Direct Democracy
    Subject RIVAB - History
    OECD categoryHistory (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
    Research InfrastructureLINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ - 90101 - Univerzita Karlova / Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta
    Institutional supportHIU-Y - RVO:67985963
    AnnotationThe study focuses on the institutional politics of 7 East-Central European countries (Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) after the Great War. In these countries, new constitutions and democratic politics were adopted after 1918. Based on the comparison of constitutions, and using methods of comparative politics, I analyze similarities and differences in the countries‘ politics. With the exception of Germany, which was a semi-presidentialism (although the term was unknown in the inter-war period), all the countries were typical parliamentarian systems. However, they were the cases of a (very) „polarized parliamentarism“ (according to Sartori’s typology), with legislatures significantly predominant over the executives. This led to political instability and – in most cases – to the fall of democracies in these countries (except Czechoslovakia). All the countries had instruments of direct Democracy incorporated in constitutions. In some cases, the overuse of these strengthened paradoxically the political instability.
    WorkplaceInstitute of History
    ContactVáclava Horčáková, horcakova@hiu.cas.cz, Tel.: 286 882 121 l. 239, 305
    Year of Publishing2022
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