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People believed this argument. Citizen passivity was often rooted in uncertainty, ignorance, or fear, and not in a specific hostility towards demo- cratic values Bermeo, The polarization in Germany has darkened our visions of ordinary citizens everywhere.

Middle-class voters defected from traditional liberal elites in a reaction to a shared hatred and fear of protests in the streets and in response to the perception that the centrist parties could not restore order Bermeo, The de- fection from the parties of the bourgeois Center and Right took place well before the rise of the nazis, however, and defections did not come from all the parties in the center of the spectrum, both the Catholic Center and the Social Democratic Party kept their elec- torates.

Newly mobilized voters, outsiders of parties and associa- tions, were the most likely to vote for the nazis. Bermeo, In Italy instead, the center weakened because of the defection of party elites towards the fascists. The ordinary voters did not defect to anti-systemic parties at all. The section on interwar Europe is followed by in-depth case studies of postwar democratic collapse in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. In the South American cases as well, Bermeo highlights the two different processes of polarization - the public and the electoral.

Brazil in witnessed public polarization, and a fluctuating mo- bilization, but ordinary Brazilians, including rank-and-file union- ists and most peasants and students, did not become radicalized and did not move either left or right. The elites misread the signals of public polarization and finished the democratic system off. A similar dynamic can be found in the case of Uruguay in and in Argentina in Chile is the closest case to Sartori s polar- ization paradigm, but even Chile fits only partially.

Electoral po- larization before the Allende government was the result of the extension of franchise to new groups, and change in the tactics of the party elites, and not a result of a massive defection from the center to the extremes. The political center in Chile never disap- peared, and its support even rose during the Allende years.

What sort of party strength is required, then, to hold in check a destabilizing polarization? Neither institutionalization, nor popu- larity or a particular party system was sufficient to prevent the fail- ure of democracy. The concept of distancing capacity refers to the ability to distance a party and its members from acts of violence and lawlessness, and deprive anti-democratic forces in the military and elsewhere from their most powerful argument for intervention.

This involves condemning and prosecuting all those who engage in violence, even when they present themselves as cur- rent or potential party allies. Ideally, distancing should be taken early so that disruptive movements cannot gain momentum. In Italy and Germany for example, the failure of leaders to punish the per- petrators of violence in time raised citizen s fears, energized pendular mobilization, and provided the rationale for the suspension of demo- cratic freedom.

Czechoslovakia and Finland in the s, and Venezuela in the s shared several distancing qualities that enabled the survival of their democracies. The first involved their party alliances, which allowed democratic government to pass laws controlling anti-demo- cratic activity to institute reforms that co-opted the issues of their anti-democratic opposition, and to govern with relative efficacy. The presence of conservative parties in the coalitions saved of serious defections from capitalists and the military.

Second, the main parties of these alliances were extremely hierarchical in all the three countries, which made the decisions of the party elites immedi- ately consequential. Lastly, each country had a charismatic leader who wielded clear leadership mandate Bermeo, Distancing capacity and its political effects are surely as impor- tant to today s struggling democracies as to the interwar Europe.

This is why poor leadership can be decisive, Bermeo concludes, and in fact reconfirms to elites and strong parties the main agency in deciding over regime changes. In doing so, she liberates ordinary people from the guilt of polarizing societies and breaking down democracies however.

This could be a starting point for asking in the future, if ordinary people actually had even more important roles in stabilizing or otherwise positively shaping the destinies of their democracies.

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