TY - BOOK AU - Kvistad,Gregg TI - The Rise and Demise of German Statism: Loyalty and Political Membership SN - 9781789205800 AV - JN3770 .K83 1999 U1 - 324.2/43 PY - 1999///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Political participation KW - Germany KW - History KW - Political parties KW - State, The KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION Political Membership, Logics of Appropriateness, and Political Loyalty in Germany --; One — STATE BUREAUCRATS BEFORE SOCIETAL CITIZENS The Articulation and Consolidation of German Statism in the Early Nineteenth Century --; Two — “THE MOST DEMOCRATIC DEMOCRACY IN THEWORLD” German Statism Survives the Weimar Republic --; Three — THE INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS OF POSTWARWEST GERMANY The Parteienstaat, the Professional Civil Service, and the Political Mobilizations of the 1960s and 1970s --; Four — GERMAN STATISM AND WEST GERMAN POLITICAL PARTY AND INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE IN THE 1970S --; Five — THE TENSIONS ENDEMIC TO AN ALTERNATIVE POLITICS IN A STATIST CONTEXT The West German Greens Between State and Society --; Six — THE DISCOURSE OF GERMAN UNIFICATION Between Statist Reassurance and Societalist Risk --; Seven — UNIFED GERMANY AND THE NEW POLITICS OF “RATIONAL” MEMBERSHIP Civil Service and Naturalization Policy in the 1990s --; CONCLUSION The Demise of German Statism and the Tensions of Democratic Political Membership --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - German statism as a political ideology has been the subject of many historical studies. Whereas most of these focus on theoretical texts, cultural works, and vague "traditions", this study understands German statism as a functioning logic of political membership, a logic that has helped to determine who is "in" and who is "out" with regard to the German political community. Tracing statism from the early 19th century through German unification and beyond in the 1990s, the author argues that, with its central concern for a political loyalty that is vetted "from above," it historically served the function of stabilizing the political order and containing democratic mobilization. Beginning in the 1960s, however, a mobilized German democratic consciousness "from below" gradually rejected statism as anachronistic for informing political and policy debate, and German political institutions began to respond to kind UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205800?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789205800 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789205800/original ER -