Title The Kaiser's voters : electors and elections in Imperial Germany / Jonathan Sperber

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 389 pages) : illustrations Contents pt. 1. The parties. 1. The Social Democrats. 2. The minority parties. 3. The "national" parties -- pt. 2. The elections. 4. The Bismarckian elections. 5. The Wilhelmine elections. 6. A century of democratic elections. Technical appendix Summary Although the German Empire of 1871-1918 was basically an authoritarian regime, its national elections were held under a democratic franchise and characterized by vigorous election campaigning and high levels of voter turnout. In The Kaiser's voters, Jonathan Sperber analyzes the thirteen general elections held in pre-1914 Germany. Using advanced mathematical methods, but presenting their results in understandable, non-technical language, his work offers estimates of the proportion of eligible voters from different confessional groups and social classes choosing the different political parties, and traces the flow of voters among the parties and between voting and abstention from one election to the next. Refuting a number of long-held propositions about the nature of the electorate in Imperial Germany, he presents a new interpretation of voting behavior in the formative years of the modern German political system, considers its consequences for German electoral politics in the twentieth century, and compares electoral trends in Germany with those in other European and North American countries in the age of universal suffrage Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-382) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Elections -- Germany -- History -- 19th century Elections -- Germany -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. Elections Politics and government Reichstagswahl Partei Verkiezingen. SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054634 Subject Germany Deutschland Duitsland. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 96045553 ISBN 0511002785 9780511002786 9780511583087 0511583087 9780521023269 0521023262

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