Red Saxony : election battles and the spectre of democracy in Germany, 1860-1918
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Red Saxony : election battles and the spectre of democracy in Germany, 1860-1918
Oxford University Press, 2017
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [639]-679) and index
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内容説明
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. Although twists and turns lay ahead, that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy
in 1933.
目次
Introduction
1: On the Threshold of a New Age
2: The Possibilities of Liberal Reform
3: Enemies of the Reich
4: The Struggle Against Revolution
5: Against Liberalism and the Jews
6: Authoritarianism Under Siege
7: Suffrage Reform as Coup d'Etat
8: "Red Saxony"
9: Deflecting Democracy
10: Crisis and Retrenchment
11: Dance
12: Politics in a New Key
13: Adrift
14: Democracy Deferred
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