Titlebook: Developments in German Politics 2; Gordon Smith (Emeritus Professor of Government),Wi Textbook 1996Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Lim

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Introductionbe a heady cocktail of idealism and rushed improvisation turned out to be remarkably successful. The social and economic disruption suffered in eastern Germany was inevitable, given the initial decision to make the transition as rapid as possible. Yet despite the upheaval and the heavy costs involve

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A Divided Electorate? democratic political system and a social market economy (.). This had transformed the values of West Germany, creating a democratic, pluralist and liberal electorate (Baker ., 1981; Conradt, 1980). Under the system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the people had been socialised into a ‘socia

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The Party System at the Crossroadse Federal Republic this continuity amounts to an awesome stability. Moreover the CDU-CSU/FDP coalition, first formed in 1982 and led since then by Chancellor Kohl, has never looked like falling apart in the intervening years. This record is all the more striking considering the likelihood of upheava

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The Territorial Dimensionnusually, the prognosis was remarkably consistent: reunification posed an ‘acid test’ (Benz, 1991; Gunlicks and Voigt, 1991; Hesse and Renzsch, 1990; Klatt, 1993) that the federal system was unlikely to pass unscathed. The task of integrating the new Länder of eastern Germany would strain and, in al

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The Federal Constitutional Courtative interpreter of the Basic Law (.), that is, the federal constitution — and the final arbiter of constitutional disputes, the Court exercises substantial political power. The scope and volume of constitutional regulation in Germany mean that political, economic and social conditions are strongly

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Germany and the European Union: From Junior to Senior Role but also the beacon of its foreign policy. Having reached one of these goals will Germany automatically pursue the other with the same vigour? The answer might not be clearcut. For a start, the sequence in which these goals were expected to be achieved did not accord with actual events. European un

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