Embracing Democracy in Modern Germany: Political Citizenship and Participation, 1871-2000

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 enab...