Title: Germany at fifty-five : Berlin ist nicht Bonn? /
Authors: Sperling, James
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Political culture Germany.; Germany History; Germany Politics and government
Abstract: Examining how the past has influenced current domestic and foreign policy in Germany, this book explores topics such as the unification of east and west, the founding of the Berlin and Bonn republics, the legacies of national socialism and how the unified Germany's political culture continues to evolve.
Contents: Berlin ist nicht Bonn? : continuity and change in postwar Germany / James Sperling -- The origins of the Bonn Republic / Karl H. Cerny -- The origins of the Berlin Republic / Mary M. McKenzie -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Run, Gerhard, run : or, is the Reformstau real? / Peter Merkl.