Weimar Germany: The first open access order that failed?

The Weimar Republic is analysed within the concept of limited and open access orders. Before World War I, Imperial Germany had developed into a mature limited access order with rule of law and open economic access but lack of competition in politics. After World War I and inflation, Weimar Germany d...

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Published in:Constitutional political economy 2015-03, Vol.26 (1), p.38-60
Main Author: Reckendrees, Alfred
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Constitutional Law
Democracy
Economic theory
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
European history
Germany
History
Institutions
International
International political economy
Interwar years
Legitimacy
Nation state
Open access
Original Paper
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Political systems
Political theory
Politics
Rule of law
Studies
Sustainability
Violence
Weimar Republic
World War I
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Summary:The Weimar Republic is analysed within the concept of limited and open access orders. Before World War I, Imperial Germany had developed into a mature limited access order with rule of law and open economic access but lack of competition in politics. After World War I and inflation, Weimar Germany developed toward an open access order; open access was not, however, sustainable and collapsed in 1930–31. This case of a failed open access order suggests refining the framework of limited and open access orders in further work. It shows that the political process of “creative destruction” might result in dissolution of open access and that the political system needs the capacity of efficiently creating legitimacy in order to sustain openness. The failure of Weimar Germany also indicates that the international political system might work as a destabilizing factor of open access and that the nation-state perspective of the limited and open access order framework needs to be supplemented by an international perspective.
ISSN:1043-4062
1572-9966
DOI:10.1007/s10602-014-9184-9