Humanities and Social Sciences
(dawna nazwa: Ekonomia i Nauki Humanistyczne)
21 (3/2014), DOI: 10.7862/rz.2014.hss.46
AUTHORITARIANISM IN EUROPE INE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A POLITICAL-SCIENCE ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM (PART 2)
Waldemar PARUCH
Submitted by: Justyna Stecko
DOI: 10.7862/rz.2014.hss.46
Abstract
The article is a political-science analysis of authoritarianism as a political system, which was an alternative to democracy and totalitarianism in Europe in the twentieth century. Three of seven elements of the authoritarian syndrome were analyzed in second part of this article: consolidation of State power; the traditionalist axiological order and its sources; the authoritarian camp. The results of the author’s studies presented in the particle show that the collapse of the authoritarian system in Europe in the twentieth century did not stem from the achievement of the declared goals but for two other reasons. First, the defeats suffered during the World War Two caused the breakdown of the authoritarian states in Central Europe, in which the authoritarian order had been established. Regardless of the circumstances, the authoritarian leaders were unable to prevent the loss of independence and of the status of political actor by the states and nations in this part of Europe. Second, in Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, and Greece) there was an internal crisis of the authoritarian political system triggered by the dispute within the ruling camp over the direction of politics and new strategic goals, especially in the face of rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union under conditions of confrontation between the democratic order and totalitarianism. This was accompanied by the loss of legitimacy by the authoritarian camp, which was tantamount to the delegitimation of the political system.
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About this Article
TITLE:
AUTHORITARIANISM IN EUROPE INE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A POLITICAL-SCIENCE ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM (PART 2)
AUTHORS:
Waldemar PARUCH
AUTHORS AFFILIATIONS:
Dr hab. prof. UMCS Waldemar Paruch, Wydział Politologii, UMCS w Lublinie
SUBMITTED BY:
Justyna Stecko
JOURNAL:
Humanities and Social Sciences
21 (3/2014)
KEY WORDS AND PHRASES:
Authoritarianism, Political System, Twentieth Century, Political Thought.
FULL TEXT:
http://doi.prz.edu.pl/pl/pdf/einh/121
DOI:
10.7862/rz.2014.hss.46
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7862/rz.2014.hss.46
RECEIVED:
2014-05-01
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