The Berlin Republic
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The Berlin Republic

German Unification and A Decade of Changes

  1. 262 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Berlin Republic

German Unification and A Decade of Changes

About this book

Since German unification in October, 1990, arguments have raged as to whether the integration process of the former East Germany into the western system has been a success. These essays offer fresh insight and perspectives explaining the effects of unification on Germany and the EU as a whole.

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Notes on Contributors

Winand Gellner is Professor of Political Science at the University of Passau. He has published widely on a variety of comparative politics issues. His primary research interests are mass media and the political process in developed democracies, especially Germany, the UK, and the USA; institutional think-tanks in comparative perspective; health policy, European integration; parties and interest groups. He is Chief Editor of www.politik-im-netz.com.
Arthur B.Gunlicks is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department at the University of Richmond, Virginia. Publications include The LƤnder and German Federalism (forthcoming), German Public Policy and Federalism (ed., forthcoming), Local Government in the German Federal System (1986), and numerous journal articles and book chapters on German federalism, local government, political parties, and campaign and party finance.
Mi-Kyung Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Texas A&M University. Her dissertation is on ā€˜Explaining Variation in Regional Institutionalization in Europe and Asia: The Legacy of Karl Polanyiā€™s Political Economyā€™. Research interests include comparative regionalism in Europe and Asia, political economy of coalition governments, and the political economy of state authority.
Karl-Rudolf Korte teaches political science at Gerhard-Mercator University at Duisburg in Germany. Since 2000 he has been the head of the research group ā€˜governanceā€™ at the Centrum fĆ¼r Angewandte Politikforschung (CAP), Munich. He has published widely on the German chancellorship and German political affairs.
Felix Philipp Lutz is Head of the Department Future Trends/Markets and Politicsā€™ in the Berlin office of Prognos AG, and Professor of International Relations and Business Administration at Schiller International University, Heidelberg. He has published in the fields of international relations, political culture, and contemporary German history.
Franz-Josef Meiers is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn. His articles on German foreign and security...

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. THE BERLIN REPUBLIC: GERMAN UNIFICATION AND A DECADE OF CHANGES
  5. ANALYSING GERMAN UNIFICATION: STATE, NATION AND THE QUEST FOR POLITICAL COMMUNITY
  6. HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE CHANGING OF GERMAN POLITICAL CULTURE
  7. TRUST IN DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS IN GERMANY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE TEN YEARS AFTER UNIFICATION
  8. THE ā€˜DOUBLEā€™ PUBLIC: GERMANY AFTER REUNIFICATION
  9. THE EFFECTS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION ON THE FEDERAL CHANCELLORā€™S DECISION-MAKING
  10. THE GERMAN PARTY SYSTEM ā€”CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
  11. THE IMPACT OF UNIFICATION ON GERMAN FEDERALISM
  12. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN EAST GERMANY
  13. ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF GERMAN UNIFICATION
  14. A CHANGE OF COURSE? GERMAN FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY AFTER UNIFICATION
  15. THE POWER OF INSTITUTIONS AND NORMS IN SHAPING NATIONAL ANSWERS TO GLOBALISATION: GERMAN ECONOMIC POLICY AFTER UNIFICATION
  16. ABSTRACTS
  17. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS