Germany's second chance trust, justice, and democratization
How does a country reconstitute itself as a functioning democracy after a period of dictatorship? In this new book, Anne Sa'adah explores twentieth-century Germany's second chances. Drawing on evidence from intellectual debates, trials, literary works, controversies about the actions of pu...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
Harvard Univ. Press
1998
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Geschichte 1945-1998
> Changement social - Allemagne
> Democratie
> Duitse hereniging
> Démocratie - Allemagne
> Histoire sociale - 20e siècle
> Réconciliation
> Sociale verandering
> Demokratie
> Demokratisierung
> Politik
> Sozialer Wandel
> Democracy
> Democratization
> Social change
> Allemagne - Politique et gouvernement - 20e siècle
> Deutschland
> Germany (East)
> Politics and government
> Germany (West)
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | How does a country reconstitute itself as a functioning democracy after a period of dictatorship? In this new book, Anne Sa'adah explores twentieth-century Germany's second chances. Drawing on evidence from intellectual debates, trials, literary works, controversies about the actions of public figures, and partisan competition, Sa'adah analyzes German responses to the problem of reconciliation after 1945 and again after 1989. She depicts the frustrations, moral and political ambiguities, and disappointments inherent to even successful processes of democratization. She constantly underscores the difficult trade-off between achieving a modicum of justice and securing the legitimacy and stability of the new regime. A strategy of reconciliation emphasizing outward conformity to democratic norms and behavior, she argues, has a greater chance of sustaining a new and fragile democracy than do more direct attempts to punish past misdeeds and alter people's inner convictions. |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 352 S. |
| ISBN: | 0674351118 0-674-35111-8 |