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Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity: Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough

Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity: Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough

Lankowski, Carl

Paperback

Series: Policies and Institutions: Germany, Europe, and Transatlanti, Book 4

General Political ScienceGerman History

ISBN10: 1571812822
ISBN13: 9781571812827
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Dec 1 2001
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Germany's institutional anatomy, its norms, and the spirits that animate it can only be properly understood if one takes into account such factors as its economic power and central position within Europe. This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity, offering new perspectives on the German question, largely characterized by the absence of key ideological underpinnings of democracy in the early modern period and a constitutional exceptionalism on the eve of the 20th century. The essays describe the organizational infrastructure and behavioral norms that account for the success of Germany's postwar economy and polity, but also register the tensions between the increasingly individualist outlook of post-1968 Germans and the country's highly organized and ritualistic decision-making structures, which often severely test the democratic foundations of the republic.

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