Does Generation Matter? Progressive Democratic Cultures in Western Europe, 1945-1960

Part I. Does Generation Matter? Progressive Democratic Cultures in Western Europe, 1945-1960

Chapter 1 Introduction: Generation as an Open Question; Jens Späth

Chapter 2 Towards a New Political Culture? Totalitarian Experience and Democratic Reconstruction after 1945; Andreas Wirsching

Part II. Intellectuals, Science and Democracy

Chapter 3 The Original 45ers. A European "Generation of Resistance"?; Dominik Rigoll

Chapter 4 Continuity in rupture. The Italian and German constitutional culture after 1945; Maurizio Cau

Chapter 5 Toward a New Political Science in Italy and West Germany After 1945: Democracy, Politics and Generational Change; Gabriele D'Ottavio

Part III. Progressive Party Politics

Chapter 6 Lost Generation? Nicolò Carandini, the Decline of New Liberalism and the Myth of a New Europe; Christian Blasberg

Chapter 7 Old and New Democracy. Placing the Italian Anomaly in a European Context; Jan de Graaf

Chapter 8 Inheriting Horror: Historical Memory in French Socialists' and German Social Democrats' Fight for European Democracy, 1945-1958; Brian Shaev

Chapter 9 Two 'Difficult Outsiders'? Antifascism, Antinazism and Democracy in Lelio Basso and Wilhelm Hoegner; Jens Späth

Chapter 10 European Socialism and the French-German Reconciliation; Christine Vodovar

Chapter 11 Conclusions: Five Dimensions of Generation around 1945; Jens Späth.