Protest and Democracy in West Germany: Extra-Parliamentary Opposition and the Democratic Agenda

✍ Scribed by Rob Burns, Wilfried van der Will (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Changes in the Nature of the Political Terrain after 1945....Pages 1-16
Critical Intellectuals as Extra-Parliamentary Custodians of Democracy....Pages 17-71
The Protest for Peace: Opposition to Remilitarisation and Nuclear Weapons (1950 to 1969)....Pages 72-98
The Anti-Authoritarian Student Movement (1965 to 1969): a Caesura in the Political Discourse....Pages 99-124
The Politics of the Women’s Movement and the Cultural Challenge of Feminism (1968 to 1985)....Pages 125-163
Citizens’ Initiatives: Grassroots Democracy and the Growth of Environmentalism in the 1970s and 1980s....Pages 164-204
The Protest for Peace: Mass Opposition to Nuclear Arms (1980 to 1986)....Pages 205-229
The Greens as the Parliamentary Tribune of Protest Politics....Pages 230-262
Conclusion: Changes in the Nature of the Political Culture since the Late 1960s....Pages 263-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-325

✦ Subjects

European Politics; Political Theory; Democracy; Political Communication