The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood

The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood

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Donald P. Kommers, The Changing Nature of the German Rechtsstaat, in The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood 94 (John S. Brady, Beverly Crawford, & Sarah E. Wiliarty eds., 1999).

Donald P. Kommers, Building Democracy: Judicial Review and the German Rechtsstaat, in The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood 94 (John S. Brady, Beverly Crawford, & Sarah E. Wiliarty eds., 1999).

As Germany celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany--the former West Germany-- leading scholars take stock in this volume of the political, social, and economic progress Germany made as it built a democratic political system and a powerful economy, survived the Cold War, and dealt with the challenges of reunification. The contributors address issues such as Germany's response to extremists, the development of a professional civil service, judicial review, the maintenance of the welfare state, the nature of contemporary German nationalism, and Germany's role in the world.

ISBN

9780472109937

Publication Date

1999

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

City

Ann Arbor

Keywords

Germany, West Germany, democracy, Cold War, reunification, civil service, judicial review, welfare state

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law | Constitutional Law | European Law | Law | Law and Politics

The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood

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