Governance In Contemporary Germany

Author : Simon Green,William E. Paterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521848814

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Governance in Contemporary Germany by Simon Green,William E. Paterson Pdf

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this success to a combination of a fragmented polity, consensus politics and incremental policy changes. However, unification in 1990 has both changed Germany's institutional configuration and created economic and social challenges on a huge scale. This volume therefore asks whether semisovereignty still exists in contemporary Germany and, crucially, whether it remains an asset in terms of addressing these challenges. By shadowing and building on the original study, an eminent team of British, German and American scholars analyses institutional changes and the resulting policy developments in key sectors, with Peter Katzenstein himself providing the conclusion. Together, the chapters provide a landmark assessment of the outcomes produced by one of the world's most important countries.

Author : Sabine Kuhlmann,Isabella Proeller,Dieter Schimanke,Jan Ziekow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030536978

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Public Administration in Germany by Sabine Kuhlmann,Isabella Proeller,Dieter Schimanke,Jan Ziekow Pdf

This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.

Author : Marcus Fuchs
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656975885

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Corporate Governance in Germany and the US by Marcus Fuchs Pdf

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 1,3 (German Grading System), University of Washington, language: English, abstract: After scandals like Enron in the past years, companies have been pressured to establish Corporate Governance systems to control their management. The design of these systems is often determined on a national level, but varies substantially from country to country. This paper deals with the different systems of Corporate Governance in the United States and Germany and establishes a comparison. The focus is put on how the German system is different from that of the US. At the end, recent developments in the Corporate Governance landscape are discussed. To begin with, it is important to understand what Corporate Governance means. It is defined as “The system of rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled”. These rules, practices and processes are supposed to achieve values like integrity, transparency and fairness. Thereby, Corporate Governance can support a corporation to “fulfill its goals and objectives in a manner that adds to the value of the company and is also beneficial for all stakeholders in the long term”. Furthermore, it strengthens a company’s reputation and has shown to increase share prices by establishing trust. Potential investors, who might not be familiar with a corporation’s processes and controlling practices in detail, can rely on statutory monitoring systems.

Author : Sabine Kuhlmann,Isabella Proeller,Dieter Schimanke,Jan Ziekow
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030536963

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Public Administration in Germany by Sabine Kuhlmann,Isabella Proeller,Dieter Schimanke,Jan Ziekow Pdf

This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.

Author : Simon Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060132555

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The Politics of Exclusion by Simon Green Pdf

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Author : Tobias Schulze-Cleven,Sidney A. Rothstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000370188

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Imbalance by Tobias Schulze-Cleven,Sidney A. Rothstein Pdf

Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories. This book assesses Germany’s political economy after the end of the "social democratic" 20th century to rethink its dominant properties and create new opportunities for using the country as a powerful lens into the evolution of democratic capitalism. Documenting large-scale changes and new tensions in the welfare state, company strategies, interest intermediation, and macroeconomic governance, the volume makes the case for analysing contemporary Germany through the politics of imbalance rather than the long-standing paradigm of institutional stability. This conceptual reorientation around inequalities and disparities provides much-needed traction for clarifying the causal dynamics that govern ongoing processes of institutional recomposition. Delving into the politics of imbalance, the volume explicates the systemic properties of capitalism, multivalent policy feedback, and the organizational foundations of creative adjustment as key vantage points for understanding new forms of distributional conflict within and beyond Germany. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of German Politics.

Author : Florian Grotz,Wolfgang Schroeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031328531

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The Political System of Germany by Florian Grotz,Wolfgang Schroeder Pdf

"Grotz and Schroeder's book is an encompassing analysis of the German political system. In an unprecedented effort, it provides extensive information grounded in democratic theory, and provides a detailed account of multi-level governance in the largest EU member state. I whole-heartedly recommend it to students and scholars alike." -Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego, USA "A comprehensive, theoretical informed guide to German politics. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins, performance, and challenges facing one of the world's most important democracies." -Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, USA, and WZB Berlin, Germany and co-author How Democracies Die "Far from being merely a factual guidebook to the German political system - though it also does that job as thoroughly as anyone could want - this is a thoughtful and theoretically driven account of how contemporary German democracy works, and the challenges it faces. Many readers will already have some knowledge of individual parts of this complex system, but to understand it fully one needs to know how all those parts interact - or occasionally fail to do so. To achieve this, one needs look no further than Grotz and Schroeder." -Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK, and External Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany This book offers a systematic, theory-based, and empirically grounded introduction to the political system of Germany. Compared to other textbooks on government and politics in Germany, it has two particular benefits. First, it analyzes the individual dimensions of the German political system from a uniform theoretical perspective based on the well-known distinction between majoritarian and consensus democracy. Second, it particularly explains how political decision-making in the multi-level system takes place, including the local, state, federal as well as EU levels. This way, the book provides a comprehensive, detailed, and clear picture of how German democracy is organized and how it works. Florian Grotz is Professor of Comparative Government at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. Wolfgang Schroeder is Professor of the Political System of Germany at the University of Kassel and Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Germany.

Author : Mark Allinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000076349962

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Contemporary Germany by Mark Allinson Pdf

This text charts the post-war development of Germany - East and West - through to reunification and Germany's evolving role in world politics and economics. It combines a concise yet comprehensive introduction in English to contemporary German politics, society and economics.

Author : Elmer Plischke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015022665817

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Government and Politics of Contemporary Berlin by Elmer Plischke Pdf

Berlin lies more than 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. It is not, however, part of that zone. It is a separate political entity for which the four major allies of the war against Nazi tyranny are jointly responsible. Its special status stems from the fact that it was the capital not only of Hitler's Third Reich but of the German nation formed in the latter half of the 19th century. In essence, the four major allies agreed to hold Berlin, as the traditional capital, in trust for a democratic and united Germany. United States, Department of State Berlin-I96I (1961) The division of Germany, and with it the bifurcation of its one-time capital - Berlin - has produced one of the foremost political contro versies of the mid-twentieth century. There has long been a "German problem," and volumes have been written concerning the history and culture of the country, the Nazi era and World War II, the Allied occupation, and recent political and economic developments in Ger many. Yet, the "Berlin problem" - as part of the broader German question - is historically of the current era.

Author : Elmer Plischke
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Germany (East)
ISBN : UOM:39015010918269

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Contemporary Government of Germany by Elmer Plischke Pdf

Author : Dan Hough,Michael Koss,Jonathan Olsen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015074267504

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The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics by Dan Hough,Michael Koss,Jonathan Olsen Pdf

This is the first book in either English or German to analyse the development of Germany's newest political party, the Left Party. It compares and contrasts the party's development with that of Germany's most well-known outsider party - the Greens. It also analyses the party's performance in office in two eastern German Länder. Finally, the book also puts the merger between the PDS and the WASG under the microscope before speculating on the party's future prospects.

Author : Jay Julian Rosellini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787383517

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The German New Right by Jay Julian Rosellini Pdf

Contemporary Germany is a modern industrial democracy admired throughout the world. Many Germans believe that they live in the 'best Germany' that has ever existed. Yet there are dissenting voices: individuals and groups that reject cosmopolitanism, globalization and multiculturalism, and yearn for the more homogeneous country of earlier times. They are part of a global movement, often characterized as populist, that values tradition over innovation or constant change. In Germany, such people are routinely portrayed as reactionary or even neo- fascist. The present study seeks to provide a portrait of these individuals and their organizations. Very little has been written in English about the cultural figures who play a role in this movement. When the political side is discussed--whether in its manifestation as a party (the Alternative for Germany) or a citizens' group (PEGIDA)--the cultural dimension is usually ignored. Jay Julian Rosellini places the so-called New Right in the context of currents in German culture and history that differ from those in other countries. With Germany the dominant country in the European Union, economically and politically, this volume offers an essential view of its current conditions, future prospects and political particularities.

Author : Nitzan Shoshan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171951

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The Management of Hate by Nitzan Shoshan Pdf

8 INOCULATING THE NATIONAL PUBLIC -- A Civilizing Mission -- Building Coalitions -- Whose Demonstration? -- Crafting Resilience -- 9 NATIONAL VISIONS -- Stars over Berlin -- Reading the Stars -- Heterotopic Landscapes -- Tactics of Visibility -- Just Mourning -- Catastrophe at the Gate -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Derek Lewis,Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442269576

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Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany by Derek Lewis,Ulrike Zitzlsperger Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germanyprovides a comprehensive overview of most aspects of life and institutions in contemporary Germany. It also introduces the reader to the historical development of both East and West Germany between 1949 and 1990, and addresses the various issues arising from reunification. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Germany contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Germany.

Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191617454

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History by Helmut Walser Smith Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany'. Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.