... of the Weimar Republic. Another key reason for the eventual downfall of the democratic republic was its failure to bring about fundamental socio-economic-judicial change. The political structure of Germany changed from an autocratic, authoritarian system to a democratic one. However, there was still people in positions of power in which were fundamentally opposed to democracy called conservative elites. ... , if misused, could undermine the democracy, Historian Edgar Mowrer writes "What can be said for a republic that allows its laws to be interpreted by monarchist judges, its government ...

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... to spark a "new world- of peace and freedom for all. Amidst the victory over Nazi Germany however, a new fear was born, coined by history as the "Cold War-. In Italy the people had won the right to vote in a "free- election and choose the type of government they deemed fit to effectively govern the nation. The 1948 elections in Italy led promise ... themselves Italian as opposed to American or Soviet. The situation in Czechoslovakia during February of 1948 would hinder the communists and strengthen the American's push for democracy as the communist government in "Czechoslovakia had diss...

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... a spirit of triumphalism through the West, came the euphoric impression that, "history had finally ended with the universal victory of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government". Put differently, Chandran Kukathas claims, "we live in an age of democracy fetishism" and "global political phenomenon of 'democratization." That is, Democracy was ... majoritarianism and also have well institutionalised democratic systems, are usually termed advanced liberal democracies or modern democracies (O'Neil), most of which are in the global north like the UK, USA, Germany, Ca...

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