Politics After Hitler: The Western Allies and the German Party System

ISBN-13: 9780333628157 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 206 str.

Daniel E. Rogers

Opis

This text concerns the efforts of Britain, France and the United States to reshape German party politics immediately after World War II. Based on archival research in the four countries involved, it concludes that interference by the occupiers made a stable and moderate party system in the Federal Republic of Germany much more probable. This interference was propelled not by concrete Allied plans for a German political revival, but by fears of reaction, revolution, nationalism and political fragmentation.

Spis treści

Preface - Abbreviations - Allied Occupation and German Political Party Tradition: Preconditions for a Revival - Crafting a Party System: The Return of German Party Politics and the Beginning of Licensing Regimes - In Fear of Reaction: Restraining the Rise of a Far Right - In Fear of Revolution: Confronting the Communist Parties - In Fear of a Greater Germany - In Fear of Fragmenting Stability: Limiting the Splinter Parties - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

DANIEL E. ROGERS