Transformation of the German Political Party System; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. GERMANY AND THE COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PARTY EXPERIENCE; Chapter 2. THE EVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE GERMAN PARTY SYSTEM; Chapter 3. THE GERMAN PARTY STATE; Chapter 4. UNIFICATION AND THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF GERMANY'S PARTIES OF THE FAR RIGHT; Chapter 5. GREEN TRUMPS RED?; Chapter 6. THE MAJOR PARTIES; Chapter 7. AGENTS OF DEMOCRATIZATION AND UNIFICATION; Chapter 8. INSTITUTIONAL ELASTICITY IN A CHANGING POLITICAL ORDER; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience in a comparative and historical framework. Evaluation the performance of the German parties and party system in dealing with problems of integration and legitimation common to all industrialized democracies, it presents a sharp analysis of the effects and incompleteness of German unification
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Papers of two workshops held at University of California, Berkeley and at the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC
