The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture (Routledge Handbooks)

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture (Routledge Handbooks)

Language: English

Pages: 514

ISBN: 0415686865

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain

  • historical pathways to contemporary Germany
  • the current ‘Berlin Republic’
  • society and diversity
  • Germany and Europe
  • Germany and the world.

This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture.

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Law has changed drastically since 1990, and we have hinted at the normalisation of its nationality policies. Given that normalisation can be a moving target, ‘normal’ needs a measureable definition. First, Germany should be compared with similar peers – in this case, other European countries in the so-called ‘second phase’ of immigration (de Hart and van Oers 2006: 317), that is, states with an established, stable immigrant community. This second phase is typified by ‘de-ethnicising citizenship’.

Guest workers have not integrated on terms of equality into German society. Migrants from two important sending countries – Greece and Italy – exhibit higher poverty rates than those who came to Germany from other countries in what is now the European Union. Poverty rates are also two or three times higher among migrants from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia than among native Germans with no family history of immigration. Higher incidence of poverty among Greeks and Italians is noteworthy, since.

As victims of an ultimately un-European totalitarianism, that is, Stalinism. On the one hand, this facilitates the integration of the united Germany into emerging European memory by giving it its own ‘victimised by an external totalitarian regime’ trope. At the same time, the identification of East Germany with Stalinism justifies the wholesale dismissal of 40 years of developments in the GDR, as they can be read as forced on Germans by an outside intervention and thus not truly part of an.

Comparative Advantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hassel, A. (2012) ‘The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55. Hiller, S. and Kruse, R. (2010) ‘Milestones of European Integration: Which matters most for trade openness?’ Online. Available at www.qass.org.uk/2010-May_Brunel-conference/kruse.pdf (accessed 2 May 2013). Hübner, K. (1990). Theorie der Regulation: eine kritische.

People who had suffered under Nazism sought to constrain their self-representations into the newly dominant mould; people who had been persecuted on grounds of ‘race’, for example, were already somewhat defensively adding that for this reason they had not been able to be as politically active as they might have liked; others, who had been politically active, were downplaying their own suffering as victims or indeed the plight of close relatives on ‘racial’ grounds.2 But they too were a tiny.

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