Restitution and Democracy in Germany after Two World Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12269356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Hughes (0000-0003-2169-3451, corresponding author), Michael L Hughes |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777300003234 |
| OpenAlex | W2140656847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
As Central and East Europeans (including Germans) strive to build new democracies on the ruins of old dictatorships, they seek to establish democratic values as well as democratic institutions. They know that democratic institutions alone were not able to save democracy in Germany's Weimar Republic, which had also risen out of the collapse of an authoritarian regime. West Germans, though, later built a viable democracy, the Federal Republic, from even more devastated and authoritarian remnants. To help explain such differing outcomes, historians have posited changes in political values, arguing that West Germans developed a democratic political culture to replace the authoritarian values many Germans had held earlier. As illuminating as such arguments could be, historians have had great difficulty finding evidence on just what political values Germans, especially common citizens, have in fact held at various times
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economic history · Economics · Political culture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Weimar Republic · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |