Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship - the building of the motorway network in Nazi Germany. The Autobahn was one of the most important projects of the Hitler government. It was intended to reduce unemployment, and was...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; Political marketing; And propaganda; Questions and reservations; A note on Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand; Notes; PART I: Advocacy: The Nazi brand and its protagonists; 1. Was there a...

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related discourses are much more than noise; rather, they...