Parties and Pressure Groups in Weimar and Bonn

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ID6410032
AuthorsCharles E Frye (Bryn Mawr College, corresponding author)
Year1965
Volume17
Issue4
Pages635-655
Publication date1965-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2009325
OpenAlexW2098087695
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

In the last forty years, Germany has had three radically different political systems. In each case, the party system, better than any other single index, reflects the style of politics of that period. The highly splintered, multiparty system of Weimar mirrors perfectly the extreme ideological dissension and radicalism of postwar German politics. The one-party system of the Third Reich epitomizes the attempt to destroy the individual's traditional social ties and then to absorb him totally in a coordinated movement. Finally, the two-party system of Bonn reflects the growing social and political consensus concerning the more pragmatic and concrete political goals of postHitlerian Germany. Although these three political systems are intimately related, the main question for us is why the democratic party systems of Weimar and Bonn are so different. The party systems are unintelligible, however, without an understanding of the patterns of pressure-group politics as well

Aesthetics · Democracy · German · Ideology · Period (music · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Political system · Politics · Social Democratic Party · Sociology · Weimar Republic · History · Law · Philosophy

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