Germany

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ISBN: 9781855215986 | 1855215985
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/1997

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This collection of essays, published in two volumes, brings together central English-language contributions to the study of modern German politics and government. The articles, written by leading German, British and American social scientists, offer a fascinating picture of the development of the German polity over the last two decades.


Unification: Exit, voice and the fate of the German Democratic Republic: an essay in conceptual history
A wall destroyed: the dynamics of German unification in the GDR
'Wir sind ein volk?' reflections on German unification
The politics of German unification
Germany's unification
Rebuilding a nation: the Germans before and after unification
The Constitution and Its Interpretation
Law as the articulation of the state in Western Germany: a German tradition seen from a British perspective
Judicial policy-making in Germany: the Federal Constitutional Court
The Federal Constitutional Court in the German political system
The basic law after unification: continued centrality or declining force?
The Federal System
Party and federation in Germany: a developmental dilemma
Institutional linkages and policy networks in the federal system of West Germany
The joint-decision trap: lessons from German federalism and European integration
German federalism after unification: the legal/constitutional response
National governance and European integration: intergovernmental relations in Germany
Political Culture
Political culture legitimacy and participation
Value change in Germany, 1950-1980
The wall after the wall: on the continuing division of Germany and the remaking of political culture
Elections, Parties and the Party System
The West German party system
The West German electorate and the party system: continuity and change in the 1980s
Value change and postmaterialist politics: the case of West Germany
The 1990 German federal election and the national unification: a watershed in German electoral history?
Election trends in Germany
An analysis of the second general election in reunited Germany
Party Government in a Parliamentary Democracy
West Germany and the politics of centrality
Responsible party government and stable coalition: the case of the German Federal Republic
The West German Bundestag after 40 years: the role of Parliament in a 'party democracy'
The composition of the German Bundestag since 1949: long-term trends and institutional effects
Index

The Role of the Chancellor
Chancellor government as a political system and the German constitution
The Chancellor and his party: political leadership in the Federal Republic
The resources of a German Chancellor
The organization and influence of the Chancellory during the Schmidt and Kohl Chancellorships
The Chancellor as manager: Helmut Kohl, the CDU and governance in Germany
The Core Executive and Public Administration
The centre of government in West Germany: changing patterns under 14 legislatures (1949-1987)
The West German 'party book' administration: an evaluation
Historical legacy and recent developments in the German higher civil service
Party patronage and politicization of the West German administrative elite 1970-1987: towards hybridization
Political Economy: The Pre-Unification Inheritance
The politics of limited Pluralism? The case of West Germany
West Germany: the policy of the middle way
Between pluralism and corporatism: German business associations and the state
Change and internationalism in industry: towards a sectoral interpretation of West German politics
Neoconservatism and conservative-liberal economic policy in West Germany
Policy style and issue environment: the electricity supply sector in West Germany
Political Economy in the 1990s
More uncertainties - German unions facing 1992
The decline and resurgence of the 'German model': the treuhandanstalt and privatization politics in East Germany
How independent is the Bundesbank?
The German solidarity pact: a case study in the politics of the unified Germany
Germany and her International Environment
Germany as number 2? The foreign and economic policy of the Federal Republic
The third West German republic: continuity in change
West Germany's role in Europe: man-mountain or semi-Gulliver
Genscher and what lies behind 'Genscherism'
Should Europe fear the Germans?
Germany at the summit
Germnay's choice
Index
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