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Getting Mad or Going Mad? Citizens, Scarcity and the Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe

Abstract

In 1920, twenty-six out of twenty-eight European states were parliamentary democracies. By 1938, thirteen of these democracies had become dictatorships. This essay is about why these regimes broke down and about the role that ordinary citizens played in the breakdown process.

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