UID:
kobvindex_DGP1639105506
Format:
zahlr. Lit.Hinw.
ISSN:
0964-4008
Content:
This paper serves as a review and critical assessment of the German social science literature on unification. The main concepts of unification analysis from Offe, Lehmbruch, Seibel, Czada and Wiesenthal are introduced. Each of these authors approaches unification using a form of Lehmbruch's institution transfer paradigm. The usefulness of this paradigm is limited because it plays down the transformative impact of unification in spite of the consensus that unification has wrought significant changes. In the future, the line demarcating the extent to which the transfer paradigm has given way to a transformation-centred paradigm will define one cutting edge in German studies. (German Politics / FUB)
In:
German politics, Philadelphia, PA : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1992, 5(1996), 3, Seite 460-484, 0964-4008
Language:
English
