David delfs erbo andersen (6 résultats)

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Denmark, Norway, and Sweden enjoy some of the happiest populations and highest standards of living in the world, thanks in part to stable, democratic systems of government. Here, David Delfs Erbo Andersen presents a syncretic history of political and socioeconomic developments in the three Scandinavian countries since the early modern period, and contrasts their peaceful transitions with the more dramatic histories of otherwise similar European countries, like France and Germany. Unlike these and many other countriesthe United States among themScandinavia's transition to democracy from monarchy was not marked by major violent upheavals or extreme political antagonism. Rather, Scandinavia's peaceful process of democratization owed itself to the development of a penetrative bureaucracy in the early modern period and the activism of cooperative associations, first of farmers in the early nineteenth century and then of industrialized workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thanks to the gradual, relatively consensual adoption of political reforms and social norms, the history of "Nordic democratic exceptionalism" today helps account for the ongoing stability of the Scandinavian countries.…