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Ross, Anna (2018) On unsettled democratization : history and political science in conversation. German History, 36 (3). pp. 432-437. ghy016. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghy016
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Abstract
This summer, two books both exploring democratization came across my desk. The first was Daniel Ziblatt’s Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy in Europe, a sophisticated piece of political science that contrasts conservative party development in Britain and Germany over the period 1848 to 1950. The second book was James Retallack’s tome, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860–1918. Retallack’s magnificent study explores what seems to be, on first appearances, a very different influence on democratization to the conservative parties analysed by Ziblatt. Rather than focusing on parties, Retallack sees election battles—encompassing both election campaigns and debates over suffrage laws—as the best...
| Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | German History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0266-3554 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 36 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 432-437 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | ghy016 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/gerhis/ghy016 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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