Semisovereignty challenged / Institutional transfer : can semisovereignty be transferred? The political economy of Eastern Germany / Political parties / Federalism : the new territorialism / Shock-absorbers under stress : parapublic institutions and the double challenges of German unification and European integration / Economic policy management : catastrophic equilibrium, tipping points and crisis intervention / Industrial relations : from state weakness as strength to state weakness as weakness : welfare corporatism and the private use of the public interest / Social policy : crisis and transformation / Immigration and integration policy : between incrementalism and non-decisions / Environmental policy : the law of dimishing returns? / Administrative reform : is public bureaucracy still an obstacle? / European policy-making : between associated sovereignty and semisovereignty / Semisovereignty in united Germany