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William E. Paterson
Gordon Smith
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Simon Green; Wolfgang Riidig; David P. Conradt 2003
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Contents
List of Maps, Figures and Tables
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Economy and State in Crisis
Interests and Institutions
Institutional Pluralism
Party System Developments
The Fluidity of Electoral Behaviour
Political Culture in a Unified Germany
The End of the Virtuous Circle
A German Europe or a European Germany?
Germany and the New Europe: Paying for Enlargement
Defence and Security: Still a Civilian Power?
Germany’s Role in the Wider World
The Future of the German Model
Government at the Centre Klaus H. Goetz
The Federal Government in Context
Inside the Federal Executive
Chancellor, Chancellery and Party
Institutions and People
What Future for the Centre?
Federalism and Territorial Politics Charlie Jeffery
Federalism in the Basic Law
Cooperative Federalism 1949-82
The Changing Parameters of German
Federalism after 1982
The New Territorial Politics
vi Contents
Issues in the New Territorial Politics
Conclusion
Voter Choice and Electoral Politics Russell J. Dalton
The Erosion of Traditional Party Loyalties
The Narrowing of Social Class Voting
The Erosion of Religious Influences on the Vote
The Weakening of Party Attachments
From Habituation to Voter Choice
The Changing Basis of Electoral Choice
The Two German Electorates
Conclusion
The ‘New Model’ Party System Gordon Smith
Core Persistence and System Stability
The “Triangular? System
Towards a New Geometry
The 2002 Election
Party Perspectives in a Two-Bloc System
Party Systems in the Lander
A Stable System?
Policy-Making in a New Political
Landscape Roland Sturm
Institutional Pluralism and the Culture of Dialogue
Chancellor and Government
Coalition Relations
The Wider Context of Policy-Making
Policy Style under Schréder
Conclusion
Political Economy: The German Model under
Stress Stephen Padgett
Globalization, Institutions and Varieties
of Capitalism
The German Model of Political Economy
The Challenges
Performance Indicators
Institutional Adaptation
Macro-Economic Policy: The Record of the
Schréder Government
Conclusion
Contents Vii
7 The Welfare State: Incremental Transformation
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 143
The Golden Era of the German Welfare State 144
Social Policy Expenditures and Financing 146
Social Policy under the Christian Democrats 1982-98 149
The Red—Green Government and Social Policy 151
The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State 155
Explaining the Dual Transformation 156
Conclusion 159
The Europeanization of German
Governance Kenneth Dyson 161
Routinizing European Integration: From Historical
Vision to Muddling Through 161
The Dynamics of Multi-Level Governance 163
What is Europeanization? 166
The Impact of European Integration on Germany 167
Effects on the Polity: Institutional Incentives
to Europeanize 168
Effects on Politics: Manoeuvring within Cultural
Constraints ETS
Effects on Policy: Managing Veto Players Wff s:
From Smooth Adaptation to Punctuated Equilibria 181
Foreign and Security Policy Adrian Hyde-Price 184
Germany and the End of the Cold War 185
Germany and Post-Cold War Security 187
The Gulf War 188
Yugoslavia and the Limits of Pacifism 189
Germany and the Kosovo War 192
EU Security and Defence Policy 195
NATO and Transatlantic Relations 196
Germany and the ‘War on Terrorism’ 198
The 2002 Election Campaign 201
Conclusion 203
10 Germany and Europe William E. Paterson 206
Post-Westphalian versus a Westphalian Future 206
The Resources of Power 208
Political Power 209
The Advantages of Congruence 210
The Red—Green Government 211
Vill Contents
Three Futures
Military Power
The Paradoxes of Power: Towards a Resolution
Three Elite Visions
Reconstituting Europe
Germany and the Wider Europe: Enlargement
Germany and Russia
Conclusion
11 Towards on Open Society? Citizenship and
Immigration Simon Green
Phases of Immigration
A Contradictory Policy Area
The Impact of Unification
The Reform of Asylum
The Liberalization of German Citizenship
The Reappraisal of Labour Migration
The Europeanization of Immigration Policy
Towards an Open Society? Between Integration
and Assimilation
Conclusion
12 The Environment and Nuclear Power
Wolfgang Riidig
Local and Regional Institutions
Federal Institutions
EU and International Environmental Politics
Policy Instruments
Environmental Movements and Interest Groups
Environmental Policy under the
Red—Green Government, 1998-2002
Evaluation and Outlook
Conclusion
13 Political Culture and Identity: The Post-Unification
Search for ‘Inner Unity’ David P. Conradt
Instant (West German-Style) Democrats?
One State, Two Cultures?
A Third Approach: Performance-Based
Convergence/Divergence?
Political Culture: Affective Orientations
Institutional Trust