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Title

Germany at fifty-five : Berlin ist nicht Bonn? / edited by James Sperling.

Publication

Manchester, UK ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Sperling, James.

Description

xxvii, 563 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Issues in German politics

Uniform Title

Issues in German politics.

Subject

• Political culture > Germany
• Germany > History > Unification, 1990
• Germany > Politics and government > 20th century

Note

• "This book is presented to Professor Peter Merkl on the occasion of his 70th birthday"--P. [v].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-557) and index.

Contents

INTRODUCTION -- Berlin ist nicht Bonn? : continuity and change in postwar Germany / James Sperling -- PART I. THE ORIGINS OF THE BONN AND BERLIN REPUBLICS -- The origins of the Bonn Republic / Karl H. Cerny -- The origins of the Berlin Republic / Mary M. McKenzie -- PART II. THE LEGACIES OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM -- Legacies of divided memory and the Berlin Republic / Jeffrey Herf -- A three-dimensional view of German history : the weight of the past in Germany's relations with Jews in Germany, Israel and the diaspora / Lily Gardner Feldman -- Restitution and the Berlin Republic / Andrew Baker -- PART III. THE EVOLVING POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC -- Public opinion and political issue divides / Robert Rohrschneider, Dieter Fuchs -- 'Girl power' : women, politics and leadership in the Berlin Republic / Joyce Marie Mushaben -- Social movements in the Federal Republic / Alice H. Cooper -- Neo-nazism in comparative perspective : no longer Germany's problem? / Leonard Weinberg -- PART IV. POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE BERLIN REPUBLIC -- German party system change / William M. Chandler -- The dynamics of party support in chancellor-democracy : Schröder and his SPD / Clay Clemens -- The PDS and the party systems in unified Germany / David F. Patton -- Elections in the Länder, 1990-2002 / Arthur B. Gunlicks -- PART V. INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND POLICY INNOVATION -- Post-unification German military organisation : the struggle to create national command structures / Thomas-Durell Young -- Evolution of the German Bundesbank : from Bank deutscher Länder to regional bank of the European Central Bank / Karl Kaltenthaler -- Standort Deutschland revisited / Michael Huelshoff -- Tax reforms and Modell Deutschland : lessons from four years of Red-Green tax policy / Achim Truger, Wade Jacoby -- PART VI. THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC -- The 'German problem' reconsidered : the impact of unification on the European order / Stephen F. Szabo -- Germany and Poland : beyond the past? / Arthur R. Rachwald -- Germany and the future of European integration / Emil J. Kirchner -- Community breakdown? : Germany, NATO and the guns of September / Mary N. Hampton -- CONCLUSION -- Run, Gerhard, run : or, is the Reformstau real? / Peter Merkl.

ISBN

• 0719064724
• 0719064732 (pbk.)

LCCN

2005274623

OCLC

• ocm56468033
• SCSB-14298604

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries