Reinventing Social Democracy? Political Opportunity Structures in Germany and Spain
Padgett, S.A. and Gillespie, R.; Padgett, S.A. and Bulmer, S. and Jeffery, C., eds. (2010) Reinventing Social Democracy? Political Opportunity Structures in Germany and Spain. In: Rethinking Germany and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. ISBN 9780230236554
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Germany and Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany and the institutions of European integration, form a unique duality. They emerged in a state of co-dependence - with wide-ranging ramifications for the rest of Europe, both East and West - in the first decades after the Second World War. From the 1970s to the 1990s they had a symbiotic relationship, with Germany as a driving force in the key initiatives of European integration, and the EU adopting many of the institutional templates developed within Germany. More recently the closeness of the relationship has been strained as the geopolitical context has shifted and as Germany has faced a new set of resource constraints. These restrictions have challenged German democracy: the capacity of political parties to engage and mobilize citizens, the capacity of political institutions to tackle pressing policy problems. Those strains have been externalized in Germany's European diplomacy, producing a new assertiveness and a reduced commitment in pursuing European integration as an end in itself. This book is about the interface of German democracy with European diplomacy and maps out the shifting terrain in contemporary Europe.
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 27072 Dates: DateEvent9 April 2010PublishedSubjects: Political Science > Political science (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Users 45 not found. Date deposited: 26 Aug 2010 11:13 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 14:41 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/27072