Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The new Germany eight years on -- GERMANY'S NEW ROLE BRINGS NEW PROBLEMS -- THE ROAD TO UNITY -- THE GERMAN PEOPLE: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 Berlin -- BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT TILL THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- BERLIN DIVIDED -- THE BERLIN WALL -- BERLIN REUNITED? -- BERLIN AS CAPITAL: THE HAUPTSTADTDEBATTE -- REBUILDING BERLIN -- ECONOMIC PROBLEMS -- BERLIN-BRANDENBURG: TWO INTO ONE DIDN'T GO -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING/WATCHING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 The federal framework -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION -- Land responsibilities -- THE FISCAL DIMENSION -- THE CO-OPERATIVE DIMENSION -- THE POLITICAL DIMENSION -- THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 Government and the political parties -- THE CONSTITUTION -- THE EXECUTIVE -- Federal Chancellor -- Federal President -- THE LEGISLATURE -- The Bundestag -- The Bundesrat -- THE JUDICIARY -- The Federal Constitutional Court -- POLITICAL PARTIES -- CDU/CSU -- SPD -- The pivotal position of the Liberals -- The Green Party shakes up the system -- Parties on the right -- The Republican Party -- German People's Union -- Parties of the left -- KPD/DKP -- The PDS-a 'new' party in a 'new' party system -- A disillusionment with politics? -- THE GERMAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM -- PARTY FINANCE -- CONCLUSION: A STABLE FUTURE? -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 Investing in Germany: Standort Deutschland -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STANDORT DEBATE -- FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO UNIFICATION -- LABOUR COSTS AND LABOUR RELATIONS -- TAXES, DUTIES AND BUREAUCRACY -- INNOVATION -- THE COST OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES.

RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 Social provision -- HISTORY AND BASIC PRINCIPLES -- SOCIAL INSURANCE -- Pensions -- Health insurance -- Unemployment insurance -- Care insurance -- THE SOCIAL BUDGET -- EFFECTS OF UNIFICATION -- Differing attitudes to women -- Maternity and child care -- Unemployment -- An expensive system -- AN AGEING POPULATION -- THE GLOBAL ECONOMY -- MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO -- Adjusting the present system -- More radical reform -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 Education, training and the workplace -- THE SCHOOL SYSTEM -- VOCATIONAL TRAINING -- Full-time vocational colleges -- The Duales System-to be continued? -- HIGHER EDUCATION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 The Nazi legacy -- VERGANGENHEITSBEWÄLTIGUNG -- THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS AND THE PROBLEM OF DENAZIFICATION -- VERJÄHRUNG -- EDUCATION, AND ATTITUDES TO THE HOLOCAUST -- The concentration camps as memorials and museums -- MEDIA -- HISTORIKERSTREIT -- AKTION SÜHNEZEICHEN AND RECONCILIATION -- RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM AND NEO-NAZISM -- Racism and violence -- Neo-Nazi parties and organisations -- NEO-NAZIS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY -- THE GOLDHAGEN DEBATE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9 The media landscape -- THE PRESS -- Private ownership -- The press market today -- Press concentration -- BROADCASTING: THE DUAL SYSTEM -- Public-service broadcasters (öffentlich-rechtliche Anstalten) -- Commercial broadcasters -- Problems of the dual system -- Concentration -- Competition between public-service and private broadcasters -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10 Culture -- KULTURSTAAT GERMANY -- LITERATURE -- FILM -- THEATRE -- THE VISUAL ARTS -- POPULAR MUSIC -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 11 German language -- INTRODUCTION -- GERMAN IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GERMAN AND ENGLISH -- Germanic in Britain -- Some tricks -- LEXICAL CHANGES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Language in the Third Reich -- GDR and FRG -- FOREIGN WORDS IN GERMAN -- British and American influence -- Borrowings and apparent borrowings from the English -- JUGENDSPRACHE -- FEMINIST INFLUENCES -- SPELLING REFORM -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 12 Germany and Europe -- THE ORIGINS OF MODERN GERMANY -- THE GERMAN QUESTION -- THE FIRST UNIFIED GERMANY -- THE CHANGED ARCHITECTURE OF POST-WAR EUROPE -- ADENAUER AND WESTPOLITIK -- BRANDT AND OSTPOLITIK -- SCHMIDT: THE STEADY HAND -- KOHL: A NEW EUROPEANISM -- UNIFICATION: A VINDICATION OF WEST GERMAN POST-WAR POLICY -- UNITED GERMANY: THE NEW STATUS QUO -- A SOLUTION TO THE GERMAN QUESTION? -- RECOMMENDED READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index.