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This article investigates the causes and content of the ongoing reform of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB). We argue that problems predating German unification - in particular, a skewed demographic profile, financial crisis and waning political clout - are the central factors that led German unionists to undertake reform and have largely determined the reform's content. German unification acted simply as a catalyst rather that the cause prompting union reform. German unions can only retain their prominent economic and social position if they promote genuine democratic reform within their ranks. Otherwise unions will never attract employees from the high technology and service sectors that are essential to the union movement's survival in the coming century. German unions should also resist the temptation to take on all of the problems plaguing German society. They must instead concentrate on the essential tasks of all labour movements: discerning the ever-changing wants of today's increasingly heterogeneous work force and fighting with employers and governments to obtain them. (German Politics / AuD)

Gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung muß sich heute im Spannungsfeld zahlreicher Entwicklungen behaupten, die nicht nur Risiken, sondern auch Chancen einschließen. Das Heft geht dieser Thematik in einer Reihe von Beiträgen nach, die im einzelnen tituliert sind: -Globalisierung der Märkte und gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung -Das strategische Dilemma der Solidarität -Soziale Sicherheit durch Prozeßnormen. Thesen zur Rolle der Gewerkschaften in der Innovationskrise -Ist Deutschland innovativ genug? -Die Zukunft der Tarifpolitik -Arbeitsrecht: Ein Tanker im Nebel -Kein Umbau - Perspektiven des Sozialstaates in Europa. (IAB)

Anna von der Goltz, The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Andrei S. Markovits, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021).
Samuel Clowes Huneke, States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Steven Press, Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021).
Larry Frohman, The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020).
Rebecca Pates and Julia Leser, The Wolves Are Coming Back: The Politics of Fear in Eastern Germany (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).
Ulrich Herbert, Wer waren die Nationalsozialisten? (Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2021).
Sean Eedy, Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic (New York: Berghahn Books, 2021).

Using German political parties as a prism with which to view institutional change, this collection transcends a single country focus and places the German experience in a comparative and historical framework. Evaluation the performance of the German parties and party system in dealing with problems of integration and legitimation common to all industrialized democracies, it presents a sharp analysis of the effects and incompleteness of German unification

Germany's institutional anatomy, its norms, and the spirits that animate it can only be properly understood if one takes into account such factors as its economic power and central position within Europe. This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity, offering new perspectives on the "German question," largely characterized by the absence of key ideological underpinnings of democracy in the early modern period and a constitutional exceptionalism on the eve of the 20th century. The essays describe the organizational infrastructure and behavioral norms that account for the success of Germany's postwar economy and polity, but also register the tensions between the increasingly individualist outlook of post-1968 Germans and the country's highly organized and ritualistic decision-making structures, which often severely test the democratic foundations of the republic. However, Germany is not unique in its efforts to find a balance between traditional and modern forces that have shaped its history. This volume demonstrates that Germany's experience, past and present, teaches broader lessons that speak to the central concerns of our time: what are the historical precursors of and vital attitudes towards democracy? How much structural variation will be feasible in political economies embedded in Europe after the introduction of the Euro and in the context of economic and other globalization? The considerable insights into these questions provided by this volume celebrate the inspiration given to colleagues and students who have worked with Andrei S. Markovits, to whom it is dedicated