1st Edition
Cultural Histories of Democracy Studies in Political Culture Since the 19th Century – Germany and Beyond
Introduction: Cultural History of Politics Reconsidered
Section I - Mass Politicisation and the Political Mass Market c. 1850–1914
Fraud, Rioting, Vote-Buying. European Election Cultures in Transition to the Political Mass Market, 1860–1914
Counter-Image, Role Model, and Specter. American Parties in the Perception of the German Political Public, 1890–1920
Section II - The Weimar Republic: Democracy in a Divided Society
The Weimar Reichstag as a Social Space
“Highly Esteemed Mister Colleague”. On the Symbolic Dimensions of Speech in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
In Search of a Good Polity. Structures of Political Expectation in the Weimar Republic
The Failure of German Tory Conservatism. The Conversion of the DNVP into a Radical Right-Wing Party 1928–1932
Section III - Political Communication and Conflict after 1945
The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy. The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945–75
Objectivity and Fairness. Negative Campaigning, Rule-Breaking, and Rule Discourse in German Electioneering 1949-1990
Time of Strife. Democracy and Conflict in 1970’s Germany
Biography
Thomas Mergel is Professor of History at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
