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France: An Ambiguous Survival

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Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39

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There is no doubt that France’s Third Republic is one of the political regimes that survived the intense anti-democratic movement which swept Europe between the two world wars. Indeed, the collapse of the system in 1940, and the instalment of the Vichy regime in its wake, seems to have resulted more from military defeat than from any endogenous political dynamic. To be sure, some - for example, the supporters of the Vichy regime - may see an indirect causality, attributing the military weakness of France, demonstrated by its defeat, to the Third Republic itself.

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  1. Phillipps University, Marburg, Germany

    Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  2. The Open University, Milton Keynes, England

    Jeremy Mitchell (Lecturer in Government) (Lecturer in Government)

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Dobry, M. (2000). France: An Ambiguous Survival. In: Berg-Schlosser, D., Mitchell, J. (eds) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333993774_7

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