Author: Hugh Ridley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004414479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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In their time these important court cases influenced the development of a democratic legal system in a country struggling to overcome Hitler’s legacy. Today they cast a unique light on seventy years of West German social and political history.
Author: Gordon R. Smith
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Germany (West)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: William E Paterson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135169829
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Gordon Smith
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Richard Hiscocks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany (West)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Karrin Hanshew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139560778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After 1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's viability and fears of authoritarian state power with a 'militant democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence as part of everyday politics.
Author: Anthony James Nicholls
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Here is an authoritative account, by one of Britain's leading Germanists, of the political history of the West German state from its birth amid postwar devastation and defeat through to reunification after the fall of the Soviet Empire, when she was once again the leading power of continental Europe. It describes how the new Germany was brought into being by the rapidly changing political patterns of the Cold War; how it built a stable - in due course formidable - economy in the face of overwhelming odds; and how the hard-won triumph of Germany's new federal democratic vision has itself contributed to the larger vision of a federal, democratic Europe. It ends with a consideration of whether the new reunified Germany can hold to the same goals and certainties. The book is written from a firmly historical perspective, at a judicious distance from the events it explores; and the approach is via a broad analytical narrative rather than a series of thematic investigations.
Author: David Childs
Publisher: London : Croom Helm
ISBN:
Category : Germany (West)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Donald P. Kommers
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Gert-Joachim Glaessner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208889
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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When the former allies of World War II divided Germany into two provisional states, no one would have predicted that this would last for nearly half a century. Nor could anyone have predicted that sixty years later, Germany would have shaken off its Nazi past so thoroughly as to emerge as a key player in Western politics.Gert-Joachim Glaessner explains this historic transformation and provides an in-depth introduction to the German political system, its foundations and developments since 1949. Themes covered include the development of the FDR and GDR during the Cold War, the politics of Westernization, the controversies of West Germany's role in NATO and European integration. The author also examines parliamentary institutions, the role of the German Chancellor, party structure and organized interest groups. The book includes reference material from key documents, such as the German Constitution.Demonstrating how Germany went from political pariah to a model of modern liberal democracy, Glaessner offers a concise overview of the German political system in the post-war period.
