TY - BOOK ID - 5387309 TI - The politics of the Nazi past in Germany and Austria PY - 2006 SN - 9780521673242 9780521856836 0521856833 0521673240 9780511616143 0511137710 9780511137716 0511616147 9780511135545 0511135548 9786610431908 6610431906 110715586X 1280431903 051118378X 0511201907 0511312024 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political culture KW - National socialism KW - Culture politique KW - Nazisme KW - Germany KW - Austria KW - Allemagne KW - Autriche KW - Politics and government. KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Nazism KW - Authoritarianism KW - Fascism KW - Nazis KW - Neo-Nazism KW - Totalitarianism KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Causes KW - National socialism. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5387309 AB - This book argues that Germans and Austrians have dealt with the Nazi past very differently and these differences have had important consequences for political culture and partisan politics in the two countries. Drawing on different literatures in political science, Art builds a framework for understanding how public deliberation transforms the political environment in which it occurs. The book analyzes how public debates about the 'lessons of history' created a culture of contrition in Germany that prevented a resurgent far right from consolidating itself in German politics after unification. By contrast, public debates in Austria nourished a culture of victimization that provided a hospitable environment for the rise of right-wing populism. The argument is supported by evidence from nearly two hundred semi-structured interviews and an analysis of the German and Austrian print media over a twenty-year period. ER -