TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Margaret Lavinia
TI  - Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany 
SN  - 9780691229539
AV  - JN3838 
U1  - 324.7/0943/09034 21
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Elections
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Activism
KW  - Alsace-Lorraine
KW  - Amendment
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - Backwardness
KW  - Ballot box
KW  - Ballot
KW  - Bribery
KW  - Bureaucrat
KW  - By-election
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Chairman
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Class conflict
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Comrade
KW  - Conservative Party (UK)
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Deliberation
KW  - Democratization
KW  - East Prussia
KW  - Election commission
KW  - Election law
KW  - Election
KW  - Electoral district
KW  - Electoral fraud
KW  - Embarrassment
KW  - Employment
KW  - Federal republic
KW  - Fraud
KW  - Friedrich Naumann
KW  - Germans
KW  - Gerrymandering
KW  - Hostility
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Imperial Government
KW  - Imperial election
KW  - Incumbent
KW  - Injunction
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intimidation
KW  - Journeyman
KW  - Kulturkampf
KW  - Laborer
KW  - Landtag
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Legislator
KW  - Legislature
KW  - Local government
KW  - Loyalty
KW  - Mittelstand
KW  - Multi-party system
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Ostracism
KW  - Otto von Bismarck
KW  - Party system
KW  - Political Catholicism
KW  - Political campaign
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political party
KW  - Political science
KW  - Political spectrum
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Polling place
KW  - Poor relief
KW  - Precinct
KW  - Prerogative
KW  - Proclamation
KW  - Proportional representation
KW  - Protest
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Provision (contracting)
KW  - Prussia
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Radicalism (historical)
KW  - Regime
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Resignation
KW  - Robert von Puttkamer
KW  - Secret ballot
KW  - Simplicissimus
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Social democracy
KW  - Socialist law
KW  - Society of Jesus
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Supporter
KW  - Tariff
KW  - Tax
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Trade union
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Universal suffrage
KW  - Upper Silesia
KW  - Voting
KW  - Weimar Republic
KW  - West Prussia
KW  - Workplace
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; A NOTE ON USAGE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; PART ONE The Framework --; CHAPTER ONE Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO The Morphology of Election Misconduct: International Comparisons --; CHAPTER THREE Open Secrets --; PART TWO Fields of Force --; CHAPTER FOUR Black Magic I: The First Mobilization --; CHAPTER FIVE Black Magic II: Keeping the Faith --; CHAPTER SIX Bread Lords I: Junkers --; CHAPTER SEVEN Bread Lords II: Masters and Industrialists --; PART THREE Degrees of Freedom --; CHAPTER EIGHT Disabling Authority --; CHAPTER NINE Going by the Rules --; CHAPTER TEN Belonging --; CHAPTER ELEVEN Organizing --; CHAPTER TWELVE. Conclusions --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691229539?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691229539
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691229539/original
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