Exit-voice dynamics and collective action -- Blocked voice, demobilization, and the crisis of East German communism -- No exit : the niche society and the limits of coercive surveillance -- Dona nobis pacem : political subcultures, the church, and the birth of dissident voice -- Triggering insurgent voice : the exiting crisis and the rebellion against communism -- Fight or flight? : a statistical evaluation of exit-voice dynamics in the East German revolution -- Why was there no "Chinese solution" in the GDR? -- Activists of the first hour : new forum and the mobilization of reformist voice -- Reunification as the collective exit from socialism
Summary
A critical and comparative reexamination of the East German revolution of 1989 and its aftermath, suggesting which causal mechanisms account for the collapse of the East German state and German reunification
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index
