Germany Flashcards
Civil Society, Cleavage Structures, and Democracy inGermany
Grande 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09644008.2022.2120610?needAccess=true
Argues that the emergence of a new ‘demarcation-integration’ cleavage has politicised civil society in Germany in several ways. As a result, the role of civil society for the future development of German democracy has become highly ambivalent.
A (New) East–West-Divide? RepresentativeDemocracy in Germany 30 Years after Unification
Reiser&Reiter 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09644008.2022.2049598?needAccess=true
focuses on the representative democracy byconcentrating on its central dimensions, actors, and institutions (citizens,political parties and parliaments, and elites). The introduction outlines thethree key questions which are addressed by the contributors regarding 1) tothe status of unification in longitudinal and in cross-sectional perspective, 2)the causes and determinants for ongoing differences and divides betweenEast and West, and 3) the implications for representative democracy inGermany. Moreover, it summarises the results of the contributions anddiscusses research desiterata for future research on the state of unificationand representative democracy in Germany
