edited by Gordon Smith, William E. Paterson, Stephen Padgett
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xix, 348 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-343) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Glossary of party abbreviations and political terms -- Map of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Länder -- Introduction -- Government and political order / Gert-Joachim Glaessner -- A divided electorate? / Russell J. Dalton -- The party system at the crossroads / Gordon Smith -- The territorial dimension / Charlie Jeffery -- The Federal Constitutional Court / Klaus H. Goetz -- Continuity and change in the policy-making process / Roland Sturm -- Beyond bipolarity : German foreign policy in a post-Cold-War world / William E. Paterson -- Germany and the European Union : from junior to senior role / Emil J. Kirchner -- 'Of dragons and snakes' : contemporary German security policy / Adrian Hyde-Price -- The economic order : still Modell Deutschland? / Kenneth Dyson -- Economic management and the challenge of reunification / Christopher Flockton -- Interest groups in the five new Länder / Stephen Padgett -- German welfare and social citizenship / Steen Mangen -- Women in the new Germany / Eva Kolinsky -- Crime and policing in Germany in the 1990s / Peter Cullen -- Model or exception : Germany as a normal state? / Peter Pulzer
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The new German state that emerged after reunification in October 1990 is Europe's defining power, and the manner in which it evolves will have a profound effect on all other European states. Built on the foundations of the old West German Federal Republic, it is operating today in a changed economic and international environment and there is some doubt as to whether the new Germany will be able to sustain the economic and foreign policies that brought the Federal Republic so much success. Developments in German Politics 2 provides a wide-ranging analysis of Germany's altered position. It analyzes the key changes in the party and governmental systems that followed unification and gives an account of the emergence of civil society in the East. The impact of German unity on the position of women, and issues of policy and civil rights, are also addressed. The book concludes with an extensive essay on whether Germany can now be considered a 'normal state.'