UID:
kobvindex_DGP1639019065
Format:
Tab., Lit.Hinw.
ISSN:
0964-4008
Content:
Based on three surveys of the voting-age population in West Germany and East Germany in 1992, 1993 and 1994, the article analyses the ways the two German populations view themselves and the "others" regarding their position on problems of German unification. Two indices and a four-fold typology are constructed which summarise and combine these attitudes. The data show substantial differences in the way both populations look at unification matters. While no anchoring in the social structure is found, attitudes are partially crystallised along left-right party lines. While German democracy is not endangered through unification strains, challenges to democratic legitimacy not only exist in the east, as one would expect, but also in the west. The article concludes that the road to inner unity is a long and stony one. (German Politics / FUB)
In:
German politics, Philadelphia, PA : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1992, 5(1996), 1, Seite 1-25, 0964-4008
Language:
English
