Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements...

First, we demonstrate that structural explanations based on socio-economic factors are insufficient to account for authoritarian regression in two of collapsology’s “crucial cases” – inter-war Germany and post-communist Russia. Instead, (a) a dearth of pro-democratic actors on the elite,...

The coalition of the willing and the breakthrough of the welfare state : the political history of the Danish people's pension / Klaus Petersen & Jørn Henrik Petersen -- From Bismarck to the new pension orthodoxy : the historical development of the pension system in Hungary / Dorottya Szikra --...