Fascination – even nostalgia – for the post-war years, which is widespread in scholarship and the public sphere in Western Europe, makes the era a key reference point in efforts to understand the development of politics and society since 1945. In scholarship, the period's resonance is readily apparent in the sparkling superlatives that have been used to describe it. In his seminal history of the short 20th century, Eric Hobsbawm describes the 1950s and 1960s as ‘golden years’.¹ This characterization emphasizes the stark contrast, especially in Western Europe, between the widespread affluence of the post-war decades and the preceding ‘age of catastrophe’, a period of 30 years that saw not only the great depression but also the two world wars. Already in the mid-1950s, West Germans began to refer to the prosperity their country had attained so soon after the devastation they faced at the end of World War II as an ‘economic miracle’ (Wirtschaftswunder). In France, the economist Jean Fourastie famously termed the period from the end of the war until the 1970s the ‘Thirty Glorious Years’ (trentes glorieuses), and similar characterizations can be found with regard to Italy and the Netherlands.

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从“灰色民主”到“绿色新政”：战后民主与西欧物质政治的霸权想象

对战后年代的迷恋——甚至是怀旧之情——在西欧的学术和公共领域中普遍存在，使这个时代成为了解 1945 年以来政治和社会发展的关键参考点。在学术领域，这一时期的共振在用于描述它的闪闪发光的最高级中很明显。埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆（Eric Hobsbawm）在他短暂的 20 世纪的开创性历史中，将 1950 年代和 1960 年代描述为“黄金岁月”。¹这种描述强调了战后几十年的普遍富裕与之前的“灾难时代”之间的鲜明对比，特别是在西欧，这 30 年不仅见证了大萧条，还见证了两次世界大战。西德人已经在1950年代中期开始提到他们的国家在第二次世界大战结束时面临的“经济奇迹”（Wirtschaftswunder）所面临的繁荣。在法国，经济学家让·福拉斯蒂（Jean Fourastie）把从战争结束到 1970 年代的这段时期称为“光荣的三十年”（trentes glorieuses），在意大利和荷兰也可以找到类似的描述。