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Red Saxony - Election battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 (Paperback)
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Red Saxony - Election battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 (Paperback)
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Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between
political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the
span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in
Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of
democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but
political democratization was opposed by many members of the German
bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of the Social
Democrats after 1871, anti-democrats deployed many strategies that
flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists,
liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to
rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Using a regional lens to
rethink older assumptions about Germany's changing political
culture, this volume focuses as much on contemporary Germans'
perceptions of electoral fairness as on their experiences of
voting. It devotes special attention to various semi-democratic
voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the
Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and
regional parliaments. For the first time, democratization at all
three tiers of governance and their reciprocal effects are
considered together. Although the bourgeois face of German
authoritarianism was nowhere more evident than in the Kingdom of
Saxony, Red Saxony illustrates how other Germans grew to fear the
spectre of democracy. Certainly twists and turns lay ahead, yet
that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections
in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy in 1933.
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