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Contents

17.1 From Liberalism to Interventionism........................................................................................ 557

17.2 The Triumph of Big Capitalism and the Transformation of the Western World....

558

17.2.1 The Inventions That Changed the World............................................................... 558

17.2.2 Demographic Expansion and the Concentration of Urban Populations.... 563

17.3 The Social Consequences of Economic Expansion................................................................. 564

17.3.1 The Middle Class and the Proletariat..................................................................... 564

17.3.2 The Origins of “the Social Question”.................................................................... 565

17.4 The Constitutional Consequences of the Social Question....................................................... 567

17.4.1 From Censitary to Universal Suffrage................................................................... 567

17.4.2 The Questioning of the Laissez Faire Principle: The Socialist Approach.. 568

17.4.3 The Conservative Approach: Bismarck’s Sozialpolitik......................................... 571

17.4.4 The Return of the Interventionist State.................................................................. 573

17.5 The Russian Revolution and the First Triumph of Totalitarianism......................................... 573

17.5.1 Lenin and the Soviet Revolution.......................................................................... 574

17.5.2 International Proletarianism vs. the Capitalism of the Liberal Nation-States.. 574

17.6 The European Oligarchies React by Defending “National Socialism”................................... 576

17.6.1 Perfectly Legal Dictatorships.................................................................................

578

17.6.2 An Adapted Legal Theory: From Ihering to Carl Schmitt.................................... 581

17.6.3 The Expansion of Social/Legal Protection in the Interbellum Period................. 583

17.6.4 The Crisis of the Liberal State Model in the U.S.A.: The New Deal................... 583

17.6.5 A New Deal for Europe?....................................................................................... 587

17.7 The Road to War...................................................................................................................... 592

17.7.1 The Expansion of Totalitarianism: The Confrontation Between

Communism and Fascism...................................................................................... 592

17.7.2 From the Spanish Civil War to World War II........................................................ 593

17.8 The Triumph of the Welfare State Model................................................................................ 597

17.8.1 The Welfare State and the Rule of Law................................................................. 598

17.8.2 The Spread of the Welfare State After 1945......................................................... 601

17.8.3 The United States Stands Alone: From Roosevelt to Obama............................... 602

17.9 The Transformation of the Totalitarian Model of State: Communism After 1945.. 603

17.9.1 The Marshall Plan and the Raising of the Iron Curtain........................................ 604

17.9.2 The Expansion of Communism After 1945.......................................................... 605

17.9.3 The Transformation of the Communist Model of State: The Chinese

Example.................................................................................................................. 606

17.10 The Contemporary Transformation of the State Model in Western Capitalist

Countries: A Return to Oligarchy?.............................................................................................

608

17.10.1 The “Thirty Glorious Years”, or the Contemporary Way of Addressing

the Social Question................................................................................................. 608

17.10.2 The Neoliberal Way and John Rawls’ Theory of Justice...................................... 609

17.10.3 Growing Inequality and Its Constitutional Consequences..................................... 609

17.10.4 Towards a New Oligarchic Model of the State?.................................................... 611

17.11 The End of the Nation-State Era and the Beginning of Global Constitutional

History?....................................................................................................................................... 613

17.11.1 From the League of Nations to the United Nations............................................... 613

17.11.2 Governments and Governance: From Authority to Negotiation............................ 615

References........................................................................................................................................... 621

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Source: Aguilera-Barchet Bruno. A History of Western Public Law. Between Nation and State. Springer,2015. — 788 p.. 2015

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