GERMAN DEMOCRACY: FROM POST-WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT DAY.
Publisher: BERG
Published: 2005
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 230
Description: "When the former allies of World War II divided Germany into two provisional states, no one would have predicted that this would last for nearly half a century. Nor could anyone have predicted that sixty years later, Germany would have shaken off its Nazi past so thoroughly as to emerge as a key player in Western politics." "Gert-Joachim Glaessner explains this historic transformation and provides an in-depth introduction to the German political system, its foundations and developments since 1949. Demonstrating how Germany went from political pariah to a model of modern liberal democracy, Galessner offers a concise overview of the German political system in the post-war period."--Jacket.