After the Second World War, the return to parliamentary democracy was not embraced with enthusiasm in Western Europe. In France, West Germany and elsewhere many members of the political, administrative and economic elites did not see the republican form of government of the past as a promising model for the future. Rather, their assessment was that democracy was not good in itself, but “the least bad of the alternatives”, as Albert Camus put it. This skepticism stemmed from the experiences of crises in the interwar period, which had sparked intense debates about ways to escape the perceived failure of parliamentary democracies and capitalist forms of the economy. Corporatism offered an attractive alternative to those contemporaries who were opposed to marxist and socialist models, but at the same time convinced that the liberal political and economic ideals of the 19th century had had their day. The conviction of the necessity of a “third way” did not disappear from people’s minds a…
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