The Postwar Transformation of Germany : Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood.
As Germany celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany--the former West Germany-- leading scholars take stock in this volume of the political, social, and economic progress Germany made as it built a democratic political system and a powerful economy, survi...
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2010
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Germany Transformed? A Framework for Analysis / Beverly Crawford, John S. Brady, and Sarah Elise Wiliarty
- Building Democracy: The Institutions and Political Culture of German Democracy
- The German Response to the Challenge of Extremist Parties, 1949�1994 / Peter H. Merkl
- Building Democracy and Changing Institutions: The Professional Civil Service and Political Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany / Gregg O. Kvistad
- Building Democracy: Judicial Review and the German Rechtsstaat / Donald P. Kommers
- From State Culture to Citizen Culture: Political Parties and the Postwar Transformation of Political Culture in Germany / Michaela RichterThe Challenge of Prosperity: The Foundations of the German Economy and Challenges of the Future
- Germany's Export Boom at Fifty � An Enduring Success Story? / Ludger Lindlar and Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich
- The German Welfare State: Principles, Performance, Prospects / Claus Offe
- Norms, Ideology, and Institutions: (En)Gendered Retrenchment of Modell Deutschland? / Patricia Davis and Simon Reich
- The Question of Nationhood: The Evolution of National Identity in the Federal RepublicThe End of Longing? (Notes toward a History of Postwar German National Longing) / Charles S. Maier
- The Late Flowering and Early Fading of German Nationalism / Ernst Haas
- The Federal Republic as a Nation-State / Peter KrÃ?ger
- Immigration and Nationhood in the Federal Republic of Germany / Christhard Hoffman
- Two Discourses of Citizenship in Germany: The Differences between Public Debate and Administrative Practice / Jost Halfmann
- Germany's Place in the World
- The Enduring Transformation of Postwar German Foreign Policy / Thomas BanchoffGermany's Place in the World / Wolfgang Krieger
- The Contemporary Power of Memory: The Dilemmas for German Foreign Policy / Andrei S. Markovits and Simon Reich
- The Burdens of Memory: The Impact of History on German National Security Policy / Thomas U. Berger
- Conclusion
- From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic and Beyond: Critical Junctures and the Future of the Federal Republic / John S. Brady and Sarah Elise Wiliarty
- Contributors
- Index
