Preface Introduction: Political Membership, Logics of Appropriateness, and Political Loyalty in Germany Chapter 1. State Bureaucrats before Societal Citizens: Articulation and Consolidation of German Statism in the Early Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. The Most Democratic Democracy in the World:German Statism Survives the Weimar Republic Chapter 3. Institutional Politics of Postwar West Germany: Parteienstaat, the Professional Civil Service, and the Political Mobilizations of the 1960s and 1970s Chapter 4. German Statism and West German Political Party and Intellectual Discourse in the 1970s Chapter 5. Tensions Endemic to an Alternative Politics in a Statist Context: West German Greens between State and Society Chapter 6. Discourse of German Unification: Between Statist Reassurance and Societalist Risk Chapter 7. Unified Germany and the New Politics of Rational Membership: Civil Service and Naturalization Policy in the 1990s Conclusion: Demise of German Statism and the Tensions of Democratic Political Membership Bibliography