Bread And Democracy In Germany

Author : Alexander Gerschenkron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801495865

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Bread and Democracy in Germany by Alexander Gerschenkron Pdf

A classic in its field, Bread and Democracy in Germany has been widely praised since its publication in 1943 for its account of German political and economic development. In his preface, Alexander Gerschenkron states: "The primary purpose of this study is to show, first, how, before 1914, the machinery of Junker protectionism is agriculture, coupled with the Junker philosophy... delayed the development of democratic institutions in Germany; and second, how the Junkers contrived to escape almost unscathed from the German revolution of 1918 and how this fact contributed to the constitutional weakness and subsequent disintegration of the Weimar Republic." Emphasizing the importance of the problem of German agriculture in its relation to democratic reconstruction, Gerschenkron asserts that "the political attitude of farmers in several European countries had a decisive influence on the fate of European democracy. Nowhere is this more true than in Germany. The German farmers bear their full share of responsibility for the advent of fascism in that country."

Author : Peter Alexis Gourevitch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801494362

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Politics in Hard Times by Peter Alexis Gourevitch Pdf

In Politics in Hard Times, Peter Gourevitch explores the common political factors that shape economic policy choices. He focuses on three periods of economic crisis--1873-1896, 1929-1949, and 1971 to the present--and compares policy choices made in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.

Author : Eugene Newton Anderson
Publisher : Russell & Russell Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010917501

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The Struggle for Democracy in Germany by Eugene Newton Anderson Pdf

Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : History
ISBN : 0674351258

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German Social Democracy, 1905-1917 by Carl E. Schorske Pdf

No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter political enemies across the front lines of the Cold War; yet they share a common origin in the Social Democratic Party of Imperial Germany. How did they come to go separate ways? By what process did the old party break apart? How did the prewar party prepare the ground for the dissolution of the labor movement in World War I, and for the subsequent extension of Leninism into Germany? To answer these questions is the purpose of Carl Schorske's study.

Author : Andrei S. Markovits,Simon Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501732898

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The German Predicament by Andrei S. Markovits,Simon Reich Pdf

What does the unification of Germany really mean? In their stimulating exploration of that question, Andrei S. Markovits and Simon Reich sketch diametrically different interpretations than are frequently offered by commentators. One is that Germany, well aware of the Holocaust, has been 'Europeanized' and is now prepared to serve as the capitalist and democratic locomotive that powers Europe. The other is that the proclivities behind Auschwitz have been suppressed rather than obliterated from the German psyche. Germany's liberal democracy was imposed by the allied victors, according to this view, and will one day dissolve, revealing the old expansionist tendencies to try to 'Germanize' all of Europe. Markovits and Reich argue that benign contemporary assessments of Germany's postwar democracy, combined with admiration for the country's economic achievements, contribute to German influence far greater than military might was able to achieve. Yet, at the same time, some Germans have internalized liberal and pacifist principles and now see their nation as powerless, simply a larger Switzerland. As a result, while the Germans have enormous influence and latitude, they have not taken responsibility for leadership. The prime reason for this gap beween ideology and structure, Markovits and Reich suggest, lies in the politics of collective memory.

Author : John Shannon Brady,Beverly Crawford,Sarah Elise Wiliarty
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472085910

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The Postwar Transformation of Germany by John Shannon Brady,Beverly Crawford,Sarah Elise Wiliarty Pdf

DIVOffers a review of how Germany changed in the fifty years since the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany by some of our most distinguished scholars /div

Author : Margaret Lavinia Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691229539

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Practicing Democracy by Margaret Lavinia Anderson Pdf

What happens when manhood suffrage, a radically egalitarian institution, gets introduced into a deeply hierarchical society? In her sweeping history of Imperial Germany's electoral culture, Anderson shows how the sudden opportunity to "practice" democracy in 1867 opened up a free space in the land of Kaisers, generals, and Junkers. Originally designed to make voters susceptible to manipulation by the authorities, the suffrage's unintended consequence was to enmesh its participants in ever more democratic procedures and practices. The result was the growth of an increasingly democratic culture in the decades before 1914. Explicit comparisons with Britain, France, and America give us a vivid picture of the coercive pressures--from employers, clergy, and communities--that German voters faced, but also of the legalistic culture that shielded them from the fraud, bribery, and violence so characteristic of other early "franchise regimes." We emerge with a new sense that Germans were in no way less modern in the practice of democratic politics. Anderson, in fact, argues convincingly against the widely accepted notion that it was pre-war Germany's lack of democratic values and experience that ultimately led to Weimar's failure and the Third Reich. Practicing Democracy is a surprising reinterpretation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany and will engage historians concerned with the question of Germany's "special path" to modernity; sociologists interested in obedience, popular mobilization, and civil society; political scientists debating the relative role of institutions versus culture in the transition to democracy. By showing how political activity shaped and was shaped by the experiences of ordinary men and women, it conveys the excitement of democratic politics.

Author : W. L. Guttsman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000007794

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The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933 by W. L. Guttsman Pdf

Originally published in 1981, this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the role and operation of the SPD in the changing social and political climate of Germany and describes the party’s internal struggles throughout the period. The party continually debated its aims and the means to achieve them. Conducted by people such as Kautsky, Bernsteina dn Rosa Luxemburg, with close links to Marx, Engels and other leaders of the international socialist movement, this debate within the party was one of the most fundamental socialist controversies, whose relevance remains today.

Author : Sheri Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780199373192

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman Pdf

Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe examines the development of various political regimes in Europe from the ancien regime up through the present day. It analyzes why democracy flourishes at some times and in some places but not others and draws lessons from European history that can help us better understand the political situation the world finds itself in today.

Author : Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107001626

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Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Modern Democracy in Europe by Daniel Ziblatt Pdf

A bold re-interpretation of democracy's historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.

Author : Michael Waller,Martin Myant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000804997

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Parties, Trade Unions and Society in East-Central Europe by Michael Waller,Martin Myant Pdf

Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses the relationship between political parties and trade unions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Political parties had high visibility in the changes that took place in Eastern Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s. Far less visible were the developments in the trade union sphere, where the old ‘mass organizations’ of the communist period, now independent, were joined by newly-formed organizations, and both played a central role in politics.

Author : Kim Christian Priemel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192563743

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The Betrayal by Kim Christian Priemel Pdf

At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex analysis of the Nazi state and German history. Building on a long debate about Germany's divergence from a presumed Western path of development, Allied prosecutors sketched a historical trajectory which had led Germany to betray the Western model. Historical reasoning both accounted for the moral breakdown of a 'civilised' nation and rendered plausible arguments that this had indeed been a collective failure rather than one of a small criminal clique. The prosecutors therefore carefully laid out how institutions such as private enterprise, academic science, the military, or bureaucracy, which looked ostensibly similar to their opposite numbers in the Allied nations, had been corrupted in Germany even before Hitler's rise to power. While the argument, depending on individual protagonists, subject matters, and contexts, met with uneven success in court, it offered a final twist which was of obvious appeal in the Cold War to come: if Germany had lost its way, it could still be brought back into the Western fold. The first comprehensive study of the Nuremberg trials, The Betrayal thus also explores how history underpins transitional trials as we encounter them in today's courtrooms from Arusha to The Hague.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 198?
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:668260633

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Democracy in Germany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fritz Erler
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080987907

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Democracy in Germany by Fritz Erler Pdf

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Author : Anne Sa'adah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674059662

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Germany's Second Chance by Anne Sa'adah Pdf

How does a country reconstitute itself as a functioning democracy after a period of dictatorship? The new community may execute, imprison, or temporarily disenfranchise some citizens, but it will be unable to exclude all who supported the fallen regime. Political reconciliation must lay the groundwork for political trust. Democracy offers the compromised--and many who were more than just compromised--a second chance. In this new book, Anne Sa'adah explores twentieth-century Germany's second chances. Drawing on evidence from intellectual debates, trials, literary works, controversies about the actions of public figures, and partisan competition, Sa'adah analyzes German responses to the problem of reconciliation after 1945 and again after 1989. She depicts the frustrations, moral and political ambiguities, and disappointments inherent to even successful processes of democratization. She constantly underscores the difficult trade-off between achieving a modicum of justice and securing the legitimacy and stability of the new regime. A strategy of reconciliation emphasizing outward conformity to democratic norms and behavior, she argues, has a greater chance of sustaining a new and fragile democracy than do more direct attempts to punish past misdeeds and alter people's inner convictions.