Practicing Democracy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780691048536
Subjects: Elections & referenda; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Germany; Elections And Voting; Germany - History; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Europe - Germany; Political History; Political Ideologies - Democracy; European History; History / Germany; Political Science and International Relations; Authoritarianism; History & Theory - General; 19th century; Elections; History
First sentence: IN 1882, the Imperial Council (Bundesrat) of the German Empire received a letter from a sixty-year-old schoolteacher, begging it to abolish universal suffrage.