Product Description: This comprehensive yet concise introduction to modern German politics emphasizes the structural and attitudinal changes that have taken place over the past half-century in Germany, as well as the policy problems the country faces today...read more

Product Description: The 2002 campaign and election was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Federal Republic. An unprecedented last minute swing narrowly re-elected the Social Democratic-Green government of Chancellor Schroeder. The campaign featured the first-ever American style television debate between the two candidates for the chancellorship...read more

Product Description: The 2002 campaign and election was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Federal Republic. An unprecedented last minute swing narrowly re-elected the Social Democratic-Green government of Chancellor Schroeder. The campaign featured the first-ever American style television debate between the two candidates for the chancellorship...read more

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Product Description: This second edition, introductory text, provides a clear, up-to-date country by country analysis of five European states and the European Community. The book briefly introduces the geographical, socio-economic, demographic, religious, historical and ideological background and proceeds to consider where power lies and what are the prospects for each political system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Four years after unification, Germany completed what has been called the "super election year": no less than nineteen elections, culminating in the Bundestag vote on October 16, 1994. Four years after unification, the elections of 1994 reveal the state of German Unity and the interplay of new forces in post-Cold War Europe...read more

Examines the context of their politics, where the power is, who has the power, how the power is used, and what the future of their politics is for each region