Techniker an der Macht : Der Ingenieur-Politiker im 20. Jahrhundert
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 31030724
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1515/hzhz-2018-0010
- Title of journal
- Historische Zeitschrift
- Article number
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- First page
- 396
- Volume
- 306
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0018-2613
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This article discusses why engineers and technical experts, a group with scant representation in the Western political elite, emerged as high-ranking politicians in Germany and America between 1930 and 1970. Engineers-turned-politicians were conflicted over their social role and their place within their profession. Professional ideologies played a minor role engineers’ rise. More important for their rise was the lavish funding infrastructure projects received in the wake of the Great Depression. Ambitious engineers rapidly built dams, road networks, and other large technological systems, which overwhelmed existing mechanisms of political and administrative control and made engineers essential to new networks of control
