Statehood, secularization, cooperation: explaining democratic survival in Inter-War Europe ; Stein Rokkan's conceptual map revisited

'This article addresses itself to the crisis of democracy in inter-war Europe which saw the breakdown of one democratic regime after the other with Czechoslovakia as the only survivor case in Eastern and Central Europe by the end of the period. It is cast within the framework of Stein Rokkan's seminal conceptual map of Europe which is expanded in order to account for countries and variables origin…