Party Government and Political Culture in Western Germany
Author: H. Doring
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-03-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1349167134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: H. Doring
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-03-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1349167134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ursula Hoffmann-lange
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1000311651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a view of West German social structure and political culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the remarkable changes that have taken place in West Germany since World War II, it provides a basis for judging what direction a united Germany is likely to take.
Author: Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 134922765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aspects of political culture, i.e. concerns with the 'subjective' dimension of politics including dominant political orientations, perceptions and interpretations, always have been particularly relevant with regard to the case of Germany and its great variety of political regimes during the last century. This is true both with regard to political science and practical politics. This volume provides a comprehensive overview concerning the major historical legacies, regional and sub-cultural variations, and current problems of democratic orientations, national identity and relationships to the outside world.
Author: Gordon R. Smith
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kendall L. Baker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780674353152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new Germany has come of age, as democratic, sophisticated, affluent, and modern as any other western nation. This remarkable transition in little more than a generation is the central theme of Germany Transformed. Here all the old stereotypes and conclusions are challenged and new research is marshalled to provide a model for an advanced democratic republic. Kendall Baker, Russell Dalton, and Kai Hildebrandt, working with massive national election returns from 1953 onward, explain the Old Politics of the postwar period, which was based on the "economic miracle" and the security needs of West Germany, and the shift in the past decade to the New Politics, which emphasizes affluence, leisure, the quality of life, and international accommodation. But more than elections are examined. Rather, the authors delineate the transvaluation of the German civic culture as democracy became embedded in the nation's institutions, political ways, party structures, and citizen interest in governance. By the 1970s the quiescent German of Prussia, the Empire, and the 1930s had become the active and aware democratic westerner. This is among the most important books about West Germany written since the late 1950s, when the nation, devastated by war and rebuilding its economy and political life, was still struggling with the possibilities of democracy. It is a political history, recounted in enormous detail and with methodological precision, that will change perceptions about Germany and align them with realities. Germany is now an integrated part of a democratic western community of nations, and an understanding of its true condition not only illuminates better the staunch European identity but also is bound to have an impact on American policy.
Author: John Gaffney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-17
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1317560787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, originally published in 1991, assesses how attitudes, political orientations and social values changed during the five decades after the Second World War. The case studies in the book focus on key ‘sites’ in political culture: in France, on the extreme right, the cinema, the impact of media personalities and changes of political discourse; in Germany, on the decline of regional identities, the emergence of specific issues and the concern of political parties with the effectiveness of language. This interdisciplinary study provides new insights into the way French and German people see themselves.
Author: Gordon Smith
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Russell J. Dalton
Publisher: Good Year Books
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Shannon Brady
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010-08-04
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 0472027239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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, survived the Cold War, and dealt with the challenges of reunification. The contributors address issues such as Germany's response to extremists, the development of a professional civil service, judicial review, the maintenance of the welfare state, the nature of contemporary German nationalism, and Germany's role in the world. Contributors are Thomas Banchoff, Thomas U. Berger, Patricia Davis, Ernst Haas, Jost Halfmann, Christard Hoffmann, Carl-Lugwig Holtfrerich, Donald P. Kommers, Wolfgang Krieger, Peter Krueger, Gregg O. Kvistad, Ludger Lindlar, Charles Maier, Andrei Markovitz, Peter Merkl, Claus Offe, Simon Reich, and Michaela Richter. John S. Brady and Sarah Elise Wiliarty are doctoral candidates in the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Beverly Crawford is Professor of Political Science, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Industrial Societies, and Associate Director, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.