Author : Arnold J. Heidenheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Germany (East)
ISBN : UOM:39015001865750
The Governments of Germany by Arnold J. Heidenheimer Pdf
Having achieved solid marks during an adolescent testing period, having proved capable of eclipsing the faulty patterns of earlier generations -- so the argument goes -- the West German political system should now be treated as a fully mature and democratic one. Thus, President Luebke has argued that the German "postwar period" be officially considered as having been concluded. This book should help the reader decide whether German institutions ought now to be accepted as much on face value as those of other democratic Western systems. As regards progress toward German unification, however, very little has occurred during the five-year period. Considered as both societies and political systems, West and East Germany are still very much the hostile twins they were in 1961, when the Berlin wall was built. - Preface.