Partidos, Sistema de Partidos y Cultura Política en la República de Weimar
Political Parties, Party System and Political Culture in the Weimar Republic

Summary/Abstract: The Weimar Republic appears in the political science literature as a paradigmatic case of an unstable political system, culminating in the collapse of democracy and its replacement by a totalitarian system. Normally this process is linked to events such as trauma resulting from the consequences of defeat in World War I (The Treaty of Versailles), a succession of economic crises (1923-1929) and associated with both factors, the rise of National Socialism. This article explores other factors specifics to the political system as political culture, parties and party systems, which allow us to understand first the difficulties of the democratic consolidation and his subsequent collapse in 1933, but certainly the analysis of the indicated factors does not exhaust the explanation. The evidence can support that Weimar was a democracy installed in a society with many tensions and little democratic culture which also resulted in a party system with the typical features of the type of system that Sartori describe as "polarized pluralism".

• Details
• Contents