Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. (Book Reviews).

The Australian Journal of Politics and History | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. By Margaret Lavinia Anderson (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), xix + 483 pp. Hardcover US $65.00, paper US $24.95.

There have been many studies of elections in Imperial Germany, many of them using more or less sophisticated quantitative methods (see, for example, the review of Jonathan Sperber, The Kaiser's Voters, in these pages, Vol.46, 2000, pp.146-147). Margaret Lavinia Anderson's new book shows, better than any previous study of the actual conduct of elections in Germany ...

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