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How democracy’s postwar revival in Europe holds lessons for today
6 mins | Aug 1, 2020
An upbeat message on the phases of democracy for these benighted times. Ben Hall, from the Financial Times, explores how professor Martin Conway’s new book about democracy after World War II, Western Europe’s Democratic Age 1945-1968, can give us a somewhat different and more cheerful analysis of what is ahead in Western governments. That is if the lessons from the past are indeed learned.
