| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

C. Edmund Clingan. Finance from Kaiser to Führer: Budget Politics in Germany, 1912–1934. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2001. Pp. x, 255. $67.50.

Budgetary politics are especially problematical in multiparty systems characterized by coalition government. This was particularly so in the Weimar Republic, where most political parties represented a relatively narrow range of sectional interests and where disagreement over financial details led to the collapse of rule by parliamentary majority in 1930. C. Edmund Clingan's account of budget politics in Germany from 1912 to 1934, based on a wide range of primary sources, is therefore of considerable significance not only for students of economic history but also for those who wish to understand the problems of democratic stability in interwar Germany. Moreover, the book's ambitions stretch to demonstrating how Weimar democracy could have been saved, had its leaders adopted the "correct" budgetary policies. . . .

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