Germany at fifty-five :  Berlin ist nicht Bonn? / 
edited by James Sperling. 
 - Manchester, UK ;  New York, NY :  New York, NY :  Manchester University Press ;  Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,  2004. 
 - xxvii, 563 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Issues in German politics .
<br/><br/> "This book is presented to Professor Peter Merkl on the occasion of his 70th birthday"--P. [v]. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-557) and index. 
<br/><br/> Berlin ist nicht Bonn? : continuity and change in postwar Germany /  The origins of the Bonn Republic /  The origins of the Berlin Republic /  Legacies of divided memory and the Berlin Republic /  A three-dimensional view of German history : the weight of the past in Germany's relations with Jews in Germany, Israel and the diaspora /  Restitution and the Berlin Republic /  Public opinion and political issue divides /  'Girl power' : women, politics and leadership in the Berlin Republic /  Social movements in the Federal Republic /  Neo-nazism in comparative perspective : no longer Germany's problem? /  German party system change /  The dynamics of party support in chancellor-democracy : SchroÌder and his SPD /  The PDS and the party systems in unified Germany /  Elections in the LaÌnder, 1990-2002 /  Post-unification German military organisation : the struggle to create national command structures /  Evolution of the German Bundesbank : from Bank deutscher LaÌnder to regional bank of the European Central Bank /  Standort Deutschland revisited /  Tax reforms and Modell Deutschland : lessons from four years of Red-Green tax policy /  The 'German problem' reconsidered : the impact of unification on the European order /  Germany and Poland : beyond the past? /  Germany and the future of European integration /  Community breakdown? : Germany, NATO and the guns of September /  Run, Gerhard, run : or, is the Reformstau real? /  James Sperling --  Karl H. Cerny --  Mary M. McKenzie --  Jeffrey Herf --  Lily Gardner Feldman --  Andrew Baker --  Robert Rohrschneider,  Dieter Fuchs --  Joyce Marie Mushaben --  Alice H. Cooper --  Leonard Weinberg --  William M. Chandler --  Clay Clemens --  David F. Patton --  Arthur B. Gunlicks --  Thomas-Durell Young --  Karl Kaltenthaler --  Michael Huelshoff --  Achim Truger,  Wade Jacoby --  Stephen F. Szabo --  Arthur R. Rachwald --  Emil J. Kirchner --  Mary N. Hampton --  Peter Merkl.  INTRODUCTION --  PART I. THE ORIGINS OF THE BONN AND BERLIN REPUBLICS --  PART II. THE LEGACIES OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM --  PART III. THE EVOLVING POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC --  PART IV. POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE BERLIN REPUBLIC --  PART V. INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND POLICY INNOVATION --  PART VI. THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC --  CONCLUSION -- 
<br/><br/> Publisher description:    The 55th anniversary of a democratic Germany coincides with other important anniversaries in German history: the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion; and the 90th anniversary of the start of the First World War, the legacy of which haunted the Federal Republic at its founding in 1949. This book examines how the past has placed constraints on the domestic and foreign policy discourse and practices within Germany, how it has shaped the evolution of the German political culture, and how it has hindered the reintegration of eastern and western Germany. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0719064724 0719064732 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005274623 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political culture--Germany.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Germany--History--Unification, 1990.<br/>Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DD290.29  / .G476 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.9430904