Embracing Democracy in Modern Germany: Political Citizenship and Participation,

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Across the modern era, the traditional stereotype of Germans as authoritarian and subservient has faded, as they have become (mostly) model democrats. This book, for the first time, examines 130 years of history to comprehensively address the central questions of German democratization: How and why did this process occur? What has democracy meant to various Germans? And how stable is their, or indeed anyone's, democracy? Looking at six German regimes across thirteen decades, this study enables you to see how and why some Germans have always chosen to be politically active (even under dictatorships); the enormous range of conceptions of political culture and democracy they have held; and how interactions among various factors undercut or facilitated democracy at different times. Michael L. Hughes also makes clear that recent surges of support for 'populism' and 'authoritarianism' have not come out of nowhere but are inherent in long-standing contestations about democracy and political citizenship. Hughes argues that democracy – in Germany or elsewhere – cannot be a story of adversity overcome which culminates in a happy ending; it is an ongoing, open-ended process whose ultimate outcome remains uncertain.

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Michael L. Hughes is Professor of History at Wake Forest University, USA. He is the author of Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat: West Germany and the Reconstruction of Social Justice (1999) and Paying for the German Inflation (1988).

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Democratic Elements in an Authoritarian Regime: Enabling and Containing Political Participation in Imperial Germany, 1871–19182. Searching for Authority: Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy in the Weimar Republic, 1918–19333. Agency in a Total State: Compliance and Non-compliance in the Third Reich, 1933–19454. Re-Imagining Democracy: Creating a Federal Republic in Postwar West Germany 5. Daring More Democracy: The Rise of Extra-Parliamentary Political Action in West Germany, 1968–1980s6. Democratic Citizenship in a Dictatorship: Negotiating Agency in East Germany, 1945–19897. Coming to Fruition? Unification and Democracy in the Berlin RepublicBibliographyIndex

Review

Embracing Democracy will reach far beyond those interested in Germany, especially at a moment when the paradoxes of actually-existing democracy are laid so bare across the world. Synthesizing the most compelling literatures across vastly different regimes, Hughes then offers a significant original account of the innumerable faces and protean character of democracy. An important read for specialists and broad audiences alike. * Belinda Davis, Professor of History, Rutgers University, USA. *This is a very timely book in the face of current challenges to liberal democracies in Germany as elsewhere. Michael L. Hughes gives us a fascinating depiction of competing concepts of democratic thought and government in the course of Germany's varied political history since the creation of the German Empire up to our time. By setting political ideas and practices in the cultural and social context of their time, this very readable book in fact provides one of the best concise surveys of Germany's history. Both experts and the public at large will find this book highly interesting and thought provoking. * Martin H. Geyer, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany *

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An examination of Germany's shift from authoritarian values to democratic principles during the modern era.

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"Embracing Democracy will reach far beyond those interested in Germany, especially at a moment when the paradoxes of actually-existing democracy are laid so bare across the world. Synthesizing the most compelling literatures across vastly different regimes, Hughes then offers a significant original account of the innumerable faces and protean character of democracy. An important read for specialists and broad audiences alike." -- Belinda Davis, Professor of History, Rutgers University, USA. "This is a very timely book in the face of current challenges to liberal democracies in Germany as elsewhere. Michael L. Hughes gives us a fascinating depiction of competing concepts of democratic thought and government in the course of Germany's varied political history since the creation of the German Empire up to our time. By setting political ideas and practices in the cultural and social context of their time, this very readable book in fact provides one of the best concise surveys of Germany's history. Both experts and the public at large will find this book highly interesting and thought provoking." -- Martin H. Geyer, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

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An examination of Germany's shift from authoritarian values to democratic principles during the modern era.

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The first book to explore the growth of democracy in modern Germany

Details ISBN1350200115 Author Michael L. Hughes Year 2022 ISBN-10 1350200115 ISBN-13 9781350200111 Pages 312 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-07-28 Publication Date 2022-07-28 UK Release Date 2022-07-28 Subtitle Political Citizenship and Participation, 1871-2000 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 320.943 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-07-27 We've got this

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