Thomas Mergel is Professor of History at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

• Introduction: Cultural History of Politics ReconsideredSection I - Mass Politicisation and the Political Mass Market c. 1850–1914Fraud, Rioting, Vote-Buying. European Election Cultures in Transition to the Political Mass Market, 1860–1914Counter-Image, Role Model, and Specter. American Parties in the Perception of the German Political Public, 1890–1920Section II - The Weimar Republic: Democracy in a Divided SocietyThe Weimar Reichstag as a Social Space“Highly Esteemed Mister Colleague”. On the Symbolic Dimensions of Speech in the Reichstag of the Weimar RepublicIn Search of a Good Polity. Structures of Political Expectation in the Weimar RepublicThe Failure of German Tory Conservatism. The Conversion of the DNVP into a Radical Right-Wing Party 1928–1932Section III - Political Communication and Conflict after 1945The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy. The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945–75Objectivity and Fairness. Negative Campaigning, Rule-Breaking, and Rule Discourse in German Electioneering 1949-1990Time of Strife. Democracy and Conflict in 1970’s Germany

Thomas Mergel is Professor of History at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

• Introduction: Cultural History of Politics ReconsideredSection I - Mass Politicisation and the Political Mass Market c. 1850–1914Fraud, Rioting, Vote-Buying. European Election Cultures in Transition to the Political Mass Market, 1860–1914Counter-Image, Role Model, and Specter. American Parties in the Perception of the German Political Public, 1890–1920Section II - The Weimar Republic: Democracy in a Divided SocietyThe Weimar Reichstag as a Social Space“Highly Esteemed Mister Colleague”. On the Symbolic Dimensions of Speech in the Reichstag of the Weimar RepublicIn Search of a Good Polity. Structures of Political Expectation in the Weimar RepublicThe Failure of German Tory Conservatism. The Conversion of the DNVP into a Radical Right-Wing Party 1928–1932Section III - Political Communication and Conflict after 1945The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy. The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945–75Objectivity and Fairness. Negative Campaigning, Rule-Breaking, and Rule Discourse in German Electioneering 1949-1990Time of Strife. Democracy and Conflict in 1970’s Germany

Thomas Mergel is Professor of History at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

• Introduction: Cultural History of Politics ReconsideredSection I - Mass Politicisation and the Political Mass Market c. 1850–1914Fraud, Rioting, Vote-Buying. European Election Cultures in Transition to the Political Mass Market, 1860–1914Counter-Image, Role Model, and Specter. American Parties in the Perception of the German Political Public, 1890–1920Section II - The Weimar Republic: Democracy in a Divided SocietyThe Weimar Reichstag as a Social Space“Highly Esteemed Mister Colleague”. On the Symbolic Dimensions of Speech in the Reichstag of the Weimar RepublicIn Search of a Good Polity. Structures of Political Expectation in the Weimar RepublicThe Failure of German Tory Conservatism. The Conversion of the DNVP into a Radical Right-Wing Party 1928–1932Section III - Political Communication and Conflict after 1945The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy. The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945–75Objectivity and Fairness. Negative Campaigning, Rule-Breaking, and Rule Discourse in German Electioneering 1949-1990Time of Strife. Democracy and Conflict in 1970’s Germany