Germany: beyond the stable state

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From Stability to Stagnation: Germany at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
	VIRTU AND FORTUNA: WHAT MADE THE GERMAN SYSTEM WORK?
	THE GERMAN PERFORMANCE CRISIS OF THE 1990s
	THE ETIOLOGY OF DECLINE: WHY GERMANY HAS RUN INTO TROUBLE
	COPING WITH DECLINE: POLITICAL MECHANISMS GENERATING IMMOBILITY
	FROM STAGNATION TO REFORM?
	NOTES
PART I NATIONAL UNIFICATION AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
	German Unification and ‘Model Germany’: An Adventure in Institutional Conservatism
		THE MACROECONOMICS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION
			The Results of Unification—A Mixed Blessing
		THE MICROECONOMICS OF UNIFICATION AND MODEL GERMANY
			Wage Concertation
			Wage Bargaining, Mittelstand and Industrial Policy
			Managing Risk through Social Insurance
			Education System
			Federalism in Unified Germany
		UNIFICATION AND PUBLIC OPINION
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
	Germany and European Integration: A Shifting of Tectonic Plates
		FROM STABILITY TO CONGRUENCE: GERMANY AND THE SHAPING OF EUROPE
		GERMANY AND EUROPE: THE SHIFTING OF TECTONIC PLATES
			Domestic Change
			European Change
			The Grinding Plates
		COST AND BENEFIT IN GERMANY’S NEW EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY
		CHANGING EUROPEAN VALUES?
		CONCLUSIONS: GERMANY AND THE RESHAPING OF EUROPE
		NOTES
PART II LABOUR MARKETS, LIFE STYLES AND POLITICAL PREFERENCES
	New Ways of Life or Old Rigidities? Changes in Social Structures and Life Courses and their Political Impact
		WAYS OF SOCIAL LIFE COMPARED OVER TIME
			The ‘Golden Age’: The 1960s and 1970s
			New Challenges: The 1980s and 1990s
		STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
		NOTES
	The Crumbling Pillars of Social Partnership
		SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP IN POST-WAR WEST GERMANY
		THE 1980s: FIRST FISSURES
		THE 1990s: UNIFICATION, RECESSION AND THE END OF CONSENSUS
		EROSION OF ORGANISATIONAL CAPACITIES
		THE SCHRÖDER DEADLOCK: WEAK STATE, WEAK ASSOCIATIONS
		OUTLOOK: FROM STABLE STATE TO STALEMATE?
		NOTES
	Political-Economic Context and Partisan Strategies in the German Federal Elections, 1990–2002
		CHANGING DEMAND AND SUPPLY CONDITIONS IN GERMAN POLITICS
			Political Demand Conditions: Economic and Socio-Cultural Preferences
			Political Supply Conditions: Strategic Options and Dilemmas for Political Parties
		GERMAN PARTY STRATEGY AND ELECTORAL PAYOFFS, 1990–98
		STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY: GERMAN PARTIES BEFORE THE 2002 ELECTION
		THE STRUCTURE OF THE GERMAN PARTY SYSTEM AND POLITICAL ECONOMIC COALITIONS IN THE 2002 ELECTION
			East-West Differences in German Partisan Alignments
			Regional Alignments within Western Germany
			Occupation, Age and Gender: Individual-Level Evidence for a Realignment of the German Electorate
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
	The Changing Role of Political Protest Movements
		BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
		POLITICAL PROTEST MOVEMENTS AND THEIR INTERPLAY WITH ESTABLISHED POLITICS
			Mapping Protest Activities
			Volume of Protest
			Themes of Protest
			Forms of Action
			Protests in Eastern and Western Germany
		THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN PROTEST MOVEMENTS AND ESTABLISHED ACTORS
			The Years of Rage
			Bridging the Gap: The Kohl Era until the Wende (1982/83 to 1989)
			In Search of a New Model: From the Collapse of East German Socialism to the Present
		POLICY IMPACT AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
			The Impact and Limitations of Movement Politics
			Transformations of the Movement Sector
			Towards a New Political Constellation?
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
PART III REORGANISATION OF STATE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
	The Disintegration of Organised Capitalism: German Corporate Governance in the 1990s
		SHAREHOLDER VALUE
		NETWORK DISSOLUTION
			Privatisation
		POLITICAL REFORMS
		THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE
		NOTES
	The State of the Welfare State: German Social Policy between Macroeconomic Retrenchment and Microeconomic Recalibration
		THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE: STRUCTURAL MAKEUP, CHALLENGES AND REFORM CONSTRAINTS
		THE MACRO-QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE: TRENDS AND PATTERNS OF SOCIAL EXPENDITURE, 1980–2000
		GERMAN SOCIAL POLICY SINCE 1982
			Kohl: 1982–98
			Schröder: 1998–2002
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
	The Politics of Citizenship in the New Republic
		THE OLD POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP: PRINCIPLE AND PRAGMATISM IN THE BONN REPUBLIC
		TOWARDS A NEW POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP: POLITICISATION AND POLARISATION
		THE IMPACT OF GERMAN UNIFICATION: LEGACIES AND A NEW ‘SUBCULTURE OF RESISTANCE’
		POST-UNIFICATION POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP: A RECOGNITION OF REALITY?
		THE NEW POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND REALITY
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
Abstracts
	From Stability to Stagnation: Germany at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, by Herbert Kitschelt and Wolfgang Streeck
	German Unification and ‘Model Germany’: An Adventure in Institutional Conservatism, by Helmut Wiesenthal
	Germany and European Integration: A Shifting of Tectonic Plates, by Charlie Jeffery and William E.Paterson
	New Ways of Life or Old Rigidities? Changes in Social Structures and Life Courses and their Political Impact, by Karl Ulrich Mayer and Steffen Hillmert
	The Crumbling Pillars of Social Partnership, by Wolfgang Streeck and Anke Hassel
	Political-Economic Context and Partisan Strategies in the German Federal Elections, 1990–2002, by Herbert Kitschelt
	The Changing Role of Political Protest Movements, by Dieter Rucht
	The Disintegration of Organised Capitalism: German Corporate Governance in the 1990s, by Jürgen Beyer and Martin Höppner
	The State of the Welfare State: German Social Policy between Macroeconomic Retrenchment and Microeconomic Recalibration, by Stephan Leibfried…
	The Politics of Citizenship in the New Republic, by Michael Minkenberg
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