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• W282974243 abstract "The solidity of postwar European democracies was based on two major factors: their success in achieving consensus on a new and successful model for economic prosperity and social welfare, and the requirements of maintaining solidarity during the Cold War. Neither of these factors is still fully relevant. European political leaders have been unable to find solutions to the problems of the economy and the crisis of the welfare state. There is no real programmatic difference between governments and opposition, between mainstream left and right. Politics reduces itself to the battle of ins versus outs, and alternation of power does not necessarily change policy or improve the situation. DECLINE OF IDEOLOGY One apparently great success of postwar European politics was the end of the harsh clash of ideologically based adversarial parties that characterized the interwar world. Agreement on the basic contours of the welfare state and mixed economy led to the appeasement of rancorous and sometimes violent conflicts over first principles; liberals, conservatives, and socialists differed only over nuance and tried to work the system to maximize the benefits to their constituent groups (which in any case had become broader as catch-all parties replaced class-based parties). Acceptance of the mixed economy cum welfare state thus represented an ill-founded act of faith that ... [they] represented an end to history; that the economic system would continue to deliver the goods, which could then be redistributed to promote 'equality.' (1) By the 1980s, communism had either become Euro-Communist or had been discredited. The end of the USSR and the collapse of its Communist party was the culmination, not the cause of this phenomenon. Socialists in most of Western Europe had long since made their peace with the new economic order (witness the Bad Godesberg platform of the SPD in 1959). In the 1980s, some of the socialist parties found themselves in an identity They attempted to find a raison d'etre in their foreign policy, by criticizing American conduct of the Cold War and occasionally glorifying Third World radicals, but this was not very meaningful then and would be even less so now. The French socialists, who had been out of government since the onset of the Fifth Republic in 1958, cherished the belief that they constituted a genuine alternative to the right and could make a break with capitalism. It took only a few years of power (from 1981 to 1984) to dispel this illusion. Thus, socialism and communism, which had once constituted a kind of religious faith for their adherents lost their special identity. Socialist parties became simply parties of government and perhaps for this reason, no more immune to corruption than other parties. So long as the new sociopolitical framework of Europe guaranteed unlimited prosperity, the end of ideology seemed a blessing. Unlike the 1930s, the crisis of the last decades has been a slow, incremental process. The rub was that once the system began to sputter, there was no real policy alternative presented by mainstream parties. The resulting crisis of political systems was a slow one, and this slowness and the tenacity of existing political institutions are as noteworthy as the existence of the crisis. Popular discontent with governments in a democratic regime usually leads to alternation of power, but alternation of power will not produce relief if the new government follows policies similar to those of the old. When that happens, citizens increasingly tend to abstain from the political process, look to extremist parties or support new or nonestablishment political parties and movements, and may even go to the street. Ideology, which appeared to depart from politics through the front door, returns through the back door. In the last analysis, established parties can founder and the system can even collapse. There is a widespread unhappiness with governments and politics throughout Europe, with political crises at varying stages of development in different countries: * In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party held on to power in 1992 only because of residual fear of the policies of a Labour government. …" @default.
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