Practicing Democracy Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany

Name: Practicing Democracy Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany
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ISBN: 9780691048543

ISBN-10: 0691048541

ISBN-13: 9780691048543

Edition: 2000

Authors: Margaret Lavinia Anderson

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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…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.25" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
A Note on Usage
Abbreviations
The Framework	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The Morphology of Election Misconduct: International Comparisons	p. 22
Open Secrets	p. 35
Fields of Force	p. 67
Black Magic I: The First Mobilization	p. 69
Black Magic II: Keeping the Faith	p. 106
Bread Lords I: Junkers	p. 152
Bread Lords II: Masters and Industrialists	p. 199
Degrees of Freedom	p. 239
Disabling Authority	p. 241
Going by the Rules	p. 277
Belonging	p. 306
Organizing	p. 345
Conclusions	p. 399
Bibliography	p. 439
Index	p. 465
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