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160982 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.160982 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2021-12 72 pages McCoy, Jonah F Taliaferro, Karen Benkert, Volker Thomson, Henry Barrett, The Honors College Economics Program in CLAS School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership Text <p>This paper applies six components of Tocqueville's lens to Imperial Germany in an effort to demonstrate how from a contemporary's perspective the Kaiserreich can be understood to have deviated from what was conceived at the time as the standard path to political, economic, and social modernity, and that these deviations give a justification for the original positive understanding of a German Sonderweg that balanced the excesses of both Western Liberalism and Eastern Reactionarism whilst using the best.</p> Imperial Germany Tocqueville Sonderweg A Tocquevillean Analysis of Imperial Germany in Defense of Sonderweg