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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822868803321

Titolo

Germany : beyond the stable state / / editors, Herbert Kitschelt, Wolfgang Streeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2004

ISBN

981-261-122-3

1-135-75517-5

0-203-61050-4

1-135-75518-3

1-280-09526-1

0-203-48915-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KitscheltHerbert

StreeckWolfgang <1946->

Disciplina

320.943

Soggetti

Germany Politics and government 1990-

Germany Economic conditions 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue of West European Politics (ISSN 0140-2382), Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2003)."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; From Stability to Stagnation: Germany at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; German Unification and 'Model Germany': An Adventure in Institutional Conservatism; Germany and European Integration: A Shifting of Tectonic Plates; New Ways of Life or Old Rigidities? Changes in Social Structure and Life Courses  and their Political Impact; The Crumbling Pillars of Social Partnership; Political-Economic Context and Partisan Strategies in the German Federal Elections, 1990-2002; The Changing Role of Political Protest Movements

Corporate Governance and the Disintegration  of Organised Capitalism in the 1990sThe State of the Welfare State: German Social Policy between Macroeconomic Retrenchment and Microeconomic Recalibration; The Politics of Citizenship in the New Republic; Abstracts; Notes on Contributors; Index;



Sommario/riassunto

This text offers an interpretation of recent German economic performance. The German capitalist model relies upon a cooperative relationship between organized labour and the employers. This relationship has started to break down. This book asks why.