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Embracing Democracy in Modern Germany - Political Citizenship and Participation, 1871-2000 (Hardcover)
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Embracing Democracy in Modern Germany - Political Citizenship and Participation, 1871-2000 (Hardcover)
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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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