Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
ISBN:
9780203976654
Inhalt:
Germany has undergone developments since re-unification and now faces important challenges as a nation at the very heart of Europe. This work illuminates contemporary political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the re-unified Germany. This study: explains the electoral, political and Federal systems; chronicles recent changes in the German economy and industry; describes the recent reforms to the German Language; discusses problems in higher education and social provision; examines the developing relationship between Germany and its neighbours; and includes in-depth treatment of Germany's coming to terms with its past.; The book presents an analysis of features of life in modern Germany. It provides an accessible introduction for students of German and European Studies or the German language at all levels
Inhalt:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The new Germany eight years on -- GERMANY'S NEW ROLE BRINGS NEW PROBLEMS -- THE ROAD TO UNITY -- THE GERMAN PEOPLE: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 Berlin -- BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT TILL THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- BERLIN DIVIDED -- THE BERLIN WALL -- BERLIN REUNITED? -- BERLIN AS CAPITAL: THE HAUPTSTADTDEBATTE -- REBUILDING BERLIN -- ECONOMIC PROBLEMS -- BERLIN-BRANDENBURG: TWO INTO ONE DIDN'T GO -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING/WATCHING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 The federal framework -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION -- Land responsibilities -- THE FISCAL DIMENSION -- THE CO-OPERATIVE DIMENSION -- THE POLITICAL DIMENSION -- THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 Government and the political parties -- THE CONSTITUTION -- THE EXECUTIVE -- Federal Chancellor -- Federal President -- THE LEGISLATURE -- The Bundestag -- The Bundesrat -- THE JUDICIARY -- The Federal Constitutional Court -- POLITICAL PARTIES -- CDU/CSU -- SPD -- The pivotal position of the Liberals -- The Green Party shakes up the system -- Parties on the right -- The Republican Party -- German People's Union -- Parties of the left -- KPD/DKP -- The PDS-a 'new' party in a 'new' party system -- A disillusionment with politics? -- THE GERMAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM -- PARTY FINANCE -- CONCLUSION: A STABLE FUTURE? -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 Investing in Germany: Standort Deutschland -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STANDORT DEBATE -- FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO UNIFICATION -- LABOUR COSTS AND LABOUR RELATIONS -- TAXES, DUTIES AND BUREAUCRACY -- INNOVATION -- THE COST OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES
Inhalt:
RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 Social provision -- HISTORY AND BASIC PRINCIPLES -- SOCIAL INSURANCE -- Pensions -- Health insurance -- Unemployment insurance -- Care insurance -- THE SOCIAL BUDGET -- EFFECTS OF UNIFICATION -- Differing attitudes to women -- Maternity and child care -- Unemployment -- An expensive system -- AN AGEING POPULATION -- THE GLOBAL ECONOMY -- MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO -- Adjusting the present system -- More radical reform -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 Education, training and the workplace -- THE SCHOOL SYSTEM -- VOCATIONAL TRAINING -- Full-time vocational colleges -- The Duales System-to be continued? -- HIGHER EDUCATION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 The Nazi legacy -- VERGANGENHEITSBEWÄLTIGUNG -- THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS AND THE PROBLEM OF DENAZIFICATION -- VERJÄHRUNG -- EDUCATION, AND ATTITUDES TO THE HOLOCAUST -- The concentration camps as memorials and museums -- MEDIA -- HISTORIKERSTREIT -- AKTION SÜHNEZEICHEN AND RECONCILIATION -- RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM AND NEO-NAZISM -- Racism and violence -- Neo-Nazi parties and organisations -- NEO-NAZIS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY -- THE GOLDHAGEN DEBATE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9 The media landscape -- THE PRESS -- Private ownership -- The press market today -- Press concentration -- BROADCASTING: THE DUAL SYSTEM -- Public-service broadcasters (öffentlich-rechtliche Anstalten) -- Commercial broadcasters -- Problems of the dual system -- Concentration -- Competition between public-service and private broadcasters -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10 Culture -- KULTURSTAAT GERMANY -- LITERATURE -- FILM -- THEATRE -- THE VISUAL ARTS -- POPULAR MUSIC -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 11 German language -- INTRODUCTION -- GERMAN IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Inhalt:
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GERMAN AND ENGLISH -- Germanic in Britain -- Some tricks -- LEXICAL CHANGES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Language in the Third Reich -- GDR and FRG -- FOREIGN WORDS IN GERMAN -- British and American influence -- Borrowings and apparent borrowings from the English -- JUGENDSPRACHE -- FEMINIST INFLUENCES -- SPELLING REFORM -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 12 Germany and Europe -- THE ORIGINS OF MODERN GERMANY -- THE GERMAN QUESTION -- THE FIRST UNIFIED GERMANY -- THE CHANGED ARCHITECTURE OF POST-WAR EUROPE -- ADENAUER AND WESTPOLITIK -- BRANDT AND OSTPOLITIK -- SCHMIDT: THE STEADY HAND -- KOHL: A NEW EUROPEANISM -- UNIFICATION: A VINDICATION OF WEST GERMAN POST-WAR POLICY -- UNITED GERMANY: THE NEW STATUS QUO -- A SOLUTION TO THE GERMAN QUESTION? -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415150330
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version James, Peter Modern Germany: Politics, Society and Culture Florence : Taylor & Francis,c1998 ISBN 9780415150330
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Modern Germany : Politics, Society and Culture
Sprache:
Englisch
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