Introduction -- Democratic elements in an authoritarian regime : enabling and containing political participation in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 -- Searching for authority : challenges to parliamentary democracy in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 -- Agency in a total state : compliance and non-compliance in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 -- Re-imagining democracy : creating a federal republic in postwar West Germany -- Daring more democracy : the rise of extra-parliamentary political action in West Germany, 1968-1980s -- Democratic citizenship in a dictatorship : negotiating agency in East Germany, 1945-1989 -- Coming to fruition? : unification and democracy in the Berlin republic.
Summary:
"Over the course of the modern era, the traditional stereotype of authoritarian Germans has given way as they have become (mostly) model democrats. Looking at six German regimes across twelve decades, this study shows how and why Germans have chosen to be politically active (even under dictatorships), the enormous range of conceptions of political culture and democracy they have held; and how the interactions between these factors produced instability and stability at different times"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.