Peter H Merkl
Biographic Data
| ID | 293778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter H Merkl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter H |
| FAMILY NAME | Merkl |
| SIGNATURE | MERKL P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right
The National Front in France - from lunatic fringe to limited respectability, William Safran the three waves of West German right-wing extremism, Ekkart Zimmermann and Thomas Saalfeld the changing profile of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, Piero Ignazi ethnochauvinism, agrarian populism and neo-Fascism in Romania and the Balkans, Trond Gilberg Pamiat - Russian right-wing radicalism, Vladimir Krasnov the Israeli radical right - history, culture an…
Political Violence Under the Swastika: 581 Early Nazis
The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the Nineties
Most studies of the radical right concentrate on movements in a single country, neglecting to some extent the international dimensions of right-wing extremism. Here, Merkl and Weinberg adopt a comparative perspective, concentrating on the revival of the right across a variety of countries
Missing the Neofascist Forest
A. James Gregor is one of the most prolific authors on the theories of Italian fascism. He has long been considered a major source of insights about the ideas behind Benito Mussolini's original movement and regime, especially with respect to the national development of Italy. Nonetheless, in the Search for Neofascism, Gregor falls short of his stated “pedagogical” and “cautionary” goal, which is to lift the fog of “confusion” and “denigration” su…
The Rift Between America and Old Europe: The Distracted Eagle
This new book explains the recent rift between America and some of her oldest European allies, especially with Germany and France. Particular attention is devoted to the several competing interpretations of the Euro-American rift, for example, that Europeans were taken aback when American neo-conservative leaders scornfully rejected their well-meant offers of post-9/11 assistance with expressions of disdain for the allies' backward military techn…
The Federal Republic of Germany at Fifty: The End of a Century of Turmoil
List of Contributors Outline INTRODUCTION: 50 Years of the Federal Republic P.H.Merkl PART I: GERMAN IDENTITY AT THE CUSP OF A NEW CENTURY Germany's Past Viewed after Fifty Years of Democracy H.A.Turner The Changing Politics of German National Identity H.Krisch Coming to Terms with the Nation: The Political and Literary Voices of Women J.Mushaben Integration and Identity in German Politics W.M.Chandler Visions of Democracy R.Rohrschneider PART II…
The European Center-Right at the End of the Twentieth Century . Frank L. Wilson
Timing and Geography: Stein Rokkan’s Influence on One American Social Scientist The Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture 1998 at the University of Bergen
Scandinavian Political StudiesVolume 22, Issue 3 p. 185-194 Timing and Geography: Stein Rokkan’s Influence on One American Social Scientist The Stein Rokkan Memorial Lecture 1998 at the University of Bergen Peter H. Merkl, Peter H. Merkl University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USASearch for more papers by this author Peter H. Merkl, Peter H. Merkl University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USASearc…
The Revival of Right-Wing Extremism in the Nineties
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
Radical right parties in Europe and anti‐foreign violence: A comparative essay
This is a comparative survey of contemporary patterns of anti‐foreign violence in Europe and some historical antecedents, such as pogroms and individual and small group attacks on visible foreigners. It considers the perpetrators and the long list of different categories of victims, many of them not foreigners at all. Against the background of general youth violence in schools and neighborhoods and waves of asylum‐seekers, the motives of anti‐for…
German Unification in the European Context
Developments in German Politics
German Unification in the European Context
The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond
German Unification in the European Context
The Politics of Economic Change in Postwar Japan and West Germany: Macroeconomic Condition and Policy Responses
The Politics of Economic Change in Postwar Japan and West Germany: Volume 1
The Politics of Economic Change in Postwar Japan and West Germany: Macroeconomic Conditions and Policy Responses
Die Gestaltung der deutschen Einheit: Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft
Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification, by A. James McAdams
Germany Divided is the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation of the forty-year relationship between East and West Germany and of the problems of contemporary German unity. When the Berlin Wall was opened on November 9, 1989, there was widespread surprise at the rush to unification: Germany was reuniting just when almost everyone, political participant and observer alike, had become accustomed to it being divided. In this politically contro…
Social Mobility and Political Attitudes: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Frederick C. Turner. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1992. 297p. 39.95
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Developments in German Politics
Developments in West German Politics
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right
The National Front in France - from lunatic fringe to limited respectability, William Safran the three waves of West German right-wing extremism, Ekkart Zimmermann and Thomas Saalfeld the changing profile of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, Piero Ignazi ethnochauvinism, agrarian populism and neo-Fascism in Romania and the Balkans, Trond Gilberg Pamiat - Russian right-wing radicalism, Vladimir Krasnov the Israeli radical right - history, culture an…
Radical right parties in Europe and anti‐foreign violence: A comparative essay
This is a comparative survey of contemporary patterns of anti‐foreign violence in Europe and some historical antecedents, such as pogroms and individual and small group attacks on visible foreigners. It considers the perpetrators and the long list of different categories of victims, many of them not foreigners at all. Against the background of general youth violence in schools and neighborhoods and waves of asylum‐seekers, the motives of anti‐for…
Developments in German Politics
Theory, Metatheory, and Comparative Politics
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty
Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification, by A. James McAdams
Germany Divided is the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation of the forty-year relationship between East and West Germany and of the problems of contemporary German unity. When the Berlin Wall was opened on November 9, 1989, there was widespread surprise at the rush to unification: Germany was reuniting just when almost everyone, political participant and observer alike, had become accustomed to it being divided. In this politically contro…
Democratic Development, Breakdowns, and Fascism
Theories of democratic development have to account for breakdowns, fascist and other, and to consider phases of incomplete democratization as well as mass democracy. To this end, they may need to relate structural changes to social and political mobilization, explain different kinds of revolution—not only the “true revolution” of leftist ideology—and different types of military coups. “Developmental dictatorships,” fascist or not, are unlikely mi…
Parliamentarians Against Ministers: The Case of Western European Union
Western European Union (WEU) is unique in the family of European organizations. Its membership comprises Great Britain in addition to the inner circle of the six nations of Little Europe. As such it was hailed as a big step forward from the continental limitations of European integration. Its special task, besides residuary powers in the cultural, social, and economic field, has been defense and the control of armaments. Western European Union wa…
Politico-Cultural Restraints on West German Foreign Policy: Sense of Trust, Identity, and Agency
European assembly parties and national delegations 1
Equilibrium, Structure of Interests and Leadership: Adenauer's Survival as Chancellor
In studies comparing the Bonn Republic with the Weimar Republic, few aspects of the former have received more attention from political scientists than its extraordinary political stability. Contrary to all expectations in the immediate postwar era, and under the same leadership, Germany's second try at parliamentary democracy has already outlasted the Nazi millennium and will soon have exceeded-successfully-the life span of its ill-fated democrat…
The SPD after Brandt: Problems of integration in a changing Urban society
Since 1982, the electoral fortunes of the SPD have followed a downward trend, accompanied by a pervasive malaise and uncertainty regarding coalitions with the Greens. The strategic choice before the SPD is mirrored by the analogous dilemma of the CDU/CSU with regard to the FDP. The problems of integrating the ‘two or more SPDs’ in a rapidly changing urban society are aggravated by the sectarian New Left in the big cities. Only a new consensus bas…
Mapping the Temporal Universe of Party Governments
This is an attempt to map out the wide variety of party-dominated democratic systems in the light of concern about the seeming decline of party government in the face of contemporary challenges. The object is to determine the parameters of their institutional, mobilization, and policymaking patterns that may constitute a reasonable definition of party government. With the help of qualitative attribute tables, sixteen systems are compared, includi…
The Study of European Political Development
The evolution of theories of political development has gone full circle with its current “return to Europe” and to history. Scholars are once more examining the early state-building process and especially the extractive and repressive activities of its military, bureaucratic, and taxation systems. A geographical and historical model of the timing of state formation in Europe since 1500 reveals situations and necessities that explain much of the h…
Political Cleavages and Party Systems
The field of the comparative study of political party systems has been particularly fortunate to have been the focus of quite a number of substantial scholarly team efforts in recent years. Individual case studies are still appearing that follow Robert A. Dahl's model of the “patterns of opposition.” Terms such as “crisis of participation” or Sartori's “extreme pluralism,” from the book edited by Joseph La Palombara and Myron Weiner,2 are widely …
Germany between East and West. The Reunification Problem
Executive-Legislative Federalism in West Germany
The form of government which we call federalism can readily be illustrated with examples from history. Its institutional structure and constitutional intricacies, however, still present real difficulties of definition by logical construction and have given rise to many conflicting interpretations of the term. Kenneth C. Wheare, in one of the more recent attempts at general definition, describes the federal principle as the "coordinate division of…
The Financial Constitution (Finanzverfassung) of Western Germany
Executive-Legislative Federalism in West Germany
The form of government which we call federalism can readily be illustrated with examples from history. Its institutional structure and constitutional intricacies, however, still present real difficulties of definition by logical construction and have given rise to many conflicting interpretations of the term. Kenneth C. Wheare, in one of the more recent attempts at general definition, describes the federal principle as the "coordinate division of…
Parliamentarians Against Ministers: The Case of Western European Union
Western European Union (WEU) is unique in the family of European organizations. Its membership comprises Great Britain in addition to the inner circle of the six nations of Little Europe. As such it was hailed as a big step forward from the continental limitations of European integration. Its special task, besides residuary powers in the cultural, social, and economic field, has been defense and the control of armaments. Western European Union wa…
Comparative Study and Campaign Management: The Brandt Campaign in Western Germany
N MORE THAN ONE sense the study of campaign management still lies on the borderline where the science of politics meets the art of politics. Only a few decades ago, campaigning was strictly an occult art practiced by the old professionals of the business of politics. With the development of public opinion research, however, campaign management is moving more and more in the direction of scientific lucidity, although the element of art has by no m…
Comparative Study and Campaign Management: The Brandt Campaign in Western Germany
Equilibrium, Structure of Interests and Leadership: Adenauer's Survival as Chancellor
In studies comparing the Bonn Republic with the Weimar Republic, few aspects of the former have received more attention from political scientists than its extraordinary political stability. Contrary to all expectations in the immediate postwar era, and under the same leadership, Germany's second try at parliamentary democracy has already outlasted the Nazi millennium and will soon have exceeded-successfully-the life span of its ill-fated democrat…
Germany: Problems of Democratic Development
World Crisis in Oil
The Defense of Berlin. Jean Edward Smith
European assembly parties and national delegations 1
Germany Between East and West: The Reunification Problem. Frederick H. Hartmann
Germany between East and West. The Reunification Problem
Political Cleavages and Party Systems
The field of the comparative study of political party systems has been particularly fortunate to have been the focus of quite a number of substantial scholarly team efforts in recent years. Individual case studies are still appearing that follow Robert A. Dahl's model of the “patterns of opposition.” Terms such as “crisis of participation” or Sartori's “extreme pluralism,” from the book edited by Joseph La Palombara and Myron Weiner,2 are widely …
Im Wechselspiel der Koalitionen: Eine Analyse der Bundestagswahl 1969
The German Dictatorship
Partecipazione Ai Sindacati E Ai Partiti in Germania Occidentale E in Italia
IntroduzioneUno dei legami piú promettenti tra ricerca micro-politica e ricerca macro-politica è rappresentato dallo studio degli atteggiamenti e delle esperienze di vita delle élites politiche e, in particolare, degli aderenti ai maggiori partiti politici. I partiti sono la struttura phú capillare dei sistemi politici moderni per la formazione dell'élite e dell'opinione. La loro sfera di influenza va dal proverbiale piccolo «uomo della strada» f…
Theory, Metatheory, and Comparative Politics
Politico-Cultural Restraints on West German Foreign Policy: Sense of Trust, Identity, and Agency
The Changing Party Elite in East Germany, by Peter C. Ludz
Journal Article The Changing Party Elite in East Germany, by Peter C. Ludz Get access The Changing Party Elite in East Germany by Peter C. Ludz. MIT Press, 1972.—xxi, 493 pp. $15.00. Peter H. Merkl Peter H. Merkl University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 88, Issue 4, December 1973, Pages 769–770, https://doi.org/10.2307/2148187 Published: 15…
Die Abgeordneten der ersten Landtage (1946-1951) und der Nationalsozialismus . Rudolf Billerbeck Das Staatsverstandnis des Parlamentarischen Rates: Ein Beitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Grundgeset…
Friedrich Meinecke and German Politics in the 20th Century
Friedrich Meinecke and German Politics in the 20th Century
The German Janus: From Westpolitik to Ostpolitik
A quarter century of German foreign policies has passed during which three statesmen figured prominently in the reintegration of the successor states of the defeated German Reich among the nations of Europe. The late Konrad Adenauer presided over the rehabilitation of Western Germany and its incorporation, on a level of near equality, into the Western alliance (NATO) and into the European organizations from the Schuman Plan (ECSC) to the Common M…
Comparative Political Corruption. James C. Scott
The Study of Women in Comparative Politics: Reflections on a Conference
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