In his book The Sorrows of Belgium Martin Conway uses the Belgian case to look at the restoration of liberal parliamentary states in Europe between 1945 and 1947. Nico Wouters’ contribution focuses on three elements brought to the fore by Conway: 1) the essential yet ambivalent role played by local government (cities and municipalities), 2) the inability to institutionalise Belgian patriotism as binder for the nation-state and finally, 3) the rift between shifts in class relations and political institutional renewal. His contribution comments on each of these elements, by means of superficial comparisons with the Netherlands. As Conway shows, Belgium’s larger cities were laboratories for new political currents that in the end strengthen...
This essay applies the influential theory of Czech historian Miroslav Hroch related to the developme...
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This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the poli...
The Sorrows of Belgium provides a very rich and beautifully written account of Belgium’s transition ...
This review of Martin Conway’s The Sorrows of Belgium notes its emphasis on continuities across the ...
On the surface one might assume Martin Conway’s The Sorrows of Belgium. Liberation and political rec...
This brief response discusses the principal themes raised by the three commentaries. In particular, ...
The post-WWII momentum was characterized by the emergence of specific languages and repertoires of ...
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In a time when the very idea of social security is becoming a target of recuperation by the xenophob...
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's p...
This dissertation analyses the reconstruction of the Belgian countryside after the First World War. ...
A Republic of Comrades ? Selection of Ministers in Interwar Belgium (1918-1940). In the interwar pe...
This essay applies the influential theory of Czech historian Miroslav Hroch related to the developme...
Kennzeichnend für den kolonialen Kontext für die Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ist einespezifische...
This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the poli...
The Sorrows of Belgium provides a very rich and beautifully written account of Belgium’s transition ...
This review of Martin Conway’s The Sorrows of Belgium notes its emphasis on continuities across the ...
On the surface one might assume Martin Conway’s The Sorrows of Belgium. Liberation and political rec...
This brief response discusses the principal themes raised by the three commentaries. In particular, ...
The post-WWII momentum was characterized by the emergence of specific languages and repertoires of ...
The inefficient operation of state institutions – including municipal administration – lay at the he...
Troubles in the heart of the EU – Political crisis in BelgiumTroubles in the heart of the EU – Polit...
Since 1993, Belgium is officially a federal state, composed of – three – communities and – three – r...
In a time when the very idea of social security is becoming a target of recuperation by the xenophob...
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's p...
This dissertation analyses the reconstruction of the Belgian countryside after the First World War. ...
A Republic of Comrades ? Selection of Ministers in Interwar Belgium (1918-1940). In the interwar pe...
This essay applies the influential theory of Czech historian Miroslav Hroch related to the developme...
Kennzeichnend für den kolonialen Kontext für die Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ist einespezifische...
This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the poli...