1 Chapter 6 The Democratic Culture of Unified Germany
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How can a democratic culture develop among people who have lived for decades in an autocratic system? We examine this issue in the unified Germany, which provides a unique case, but for this very reason a particularly instructive one. German unification integrated two communities with a common history until the end of the Second World War. For a period of 50 years thereafter they lived in two different social systems. A comparative analysis of the political culture of the two parts of Germany thus conforms in almost paradigmatic form to Przeworski and Teune's (1970) "most similar system design". We therefore have a quasi experiment, which permit us to analyze the effects of these different social systems on the political culture of their citizens. Germany can be regarded as a sort of laboratory (Rohrschneider 1994) for a possible European unification encompassing the countries of Western and Eastern Europe.
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Veröffentlichungsreihe der Abteilung Institutionen und sozialer Wandel des Forschungsschwerpunktes Sozialer Wandel, Institutionen und Vermittlungsprozesse des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung FS III 98-204 The Political Culture of Unified Germany
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