By Sheri Berman
As well as revising our view of the interwar interval and the construction of ecu democracies, this ebook cuts opposed to the grain of most present theorizing in political technology by way of explicitly discussing while and the way rules impact political habit. even if German and Swedish Social Democrats belonged to a similar transnational political flow and confronted related political and social stipulations of their respective nations sooner than and after international conflict I, they replied very in a different way to the demanding situations of democratization and the nice Depression--with the most important effects for the fates in their international locations and the realm at huge. Explaining why those social democratic events acted so otherwise is the first job of this booklet. Berman's resolution is they had very diverse rules approximately politics and economics--what she calls their programmatic ideals. The Swedish Social Democrats put themselves on the leading edge of the force for democratization; a decade later they replied to the melancholy with a daring new fiscal application and used it to construct a protracted interval of political hegemony. The German Social Democrats, nevertheless, had democracy thrust upon them after which dithered while confronted with monetary quandary; their haplessness cleared the best way for a bolder and extra skillful political actor--Adolf Hitler. This provocative publication can be of curiosity to someone fascinated by twentieth-century eu background, the transition to democracy challenge, or the function of rules in politics.
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As one pair of scholars puts it: “The elementary screening devices used by individuals in looking at the world tend to obscure those elements of reality that are not consonant with prior attitudes. 48 Again, a comparison with another approach might prove helpful. Most political economy explanations, for example, do not distinguish between reality and actors’ perceptions of it. Instead, they assume that actors have access, if not to perfect information, then at least to relatively full and accurate information.
35 In order to be heard in a world where different ideas are calling out for attention, an idea must be adopted by a person or group that is able to make others listen or render them receptive. Carriers act as intellectual entrepreneurs, bringing different ideas into the political system. The carrier’s status within the system will affect the likelihood of an idea’s gaining political salience: the greater the influence of the carrier, the greater the chance that the idea carried will attain political importance.
8 Turning from Sweden’s political system to its economic and social development, we see that changes in these areas were profound during this period. The country was just emerging from a period as the “sick man of northern Europe”—extremely poor and weak after the loss of Finland to Russia in the early part of the nineteenth century. The most dramatic consequence of such conditions was the mass emigration of Swedes during the nineteenth century, especially to the United States. Horrible economic conditions, a repressive labor system in both rural and urban areas,9 high 42 The Social Democratic Moment population growth, and hated compulsory military service led to the flight of a greater percentage of Sweden’s “sons and daughters overseas than .
