Suchergebnisse

Introduction * The Nature of Research * The 'Nuts and Bolts' of Research * Getting Started in Research * The Building Blocks of Research * Introducing the Key Research Paradigms * The Types and Uses of Theory in Research * Introducing Research Methods * Academic Standards, Plagiarism and Ethics in Research * Conclusion: Summary of Key Points * Appendix 1: Stages of Research * Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms * Bibliography

The emergence of interest group politics is one of the decisive factors in democratic transformation in post-communist society. Stephen Padgett argues that evidence from eastern Germany suggests that market transition produces rather open and fluid societies, in which group interests and identities are tenuous. Lacking a supportive social infrastructure, interest groups operate on 'entrepreneurial' lines, a form of associational activity which falls far short of pluralist ideals. With its accelerated transition to a market economy, eastern Germany provides a 'fast-forward' study of an 'advanced post-communist society' which enables us to anticipate the social structures and issues shaping interest-group politics in the newly-democratizing states of east-central Europe. Examining a number of different interest groups, and comparing a number of countries across east-central Europe, this book may also offer a vision of the future of interest-group politics in the West

Lebensbedingungen und politische Situation in der DDR.

Themen: Verbesserung der Verhältnisse in der Ostzone; Verbesserung der
Ernährungslage, der rechtlichen Verhältnisse und der Verwaltung;
Verbesserung der Verhältnisse durch Rentenerhöhung; Einführung der 45
Stunden-Woche und Aufhebung der Lebensmittelrationierung; Wege zur
Wiedervereinigung; Dauer bis zur Wiedervereinigung; Blockzugehörigkeit
eines wiedervereinten Deutschlands; Beurteilung der Politik Adenauers in
Bezug auf die Wiedervereinigung; Ansehen Adenauers; Rede von
US-Präsident Eisenhower über die Nahost-Situation; Inhalte der Rede
Eisenhowers; Einstellung zum Eisenhower-Plan; Auswirkung des
Ungarn-Aufstandes auf das Ansehen der UdSSR; Auswirkung des
Ungarn-Aufstandes auf die Situation in der DDR; Auswirkung des
Suez-Zwischenfalls und des Ungarn-Aufstands auf das Ansehen der USA

Demographie: Beruf; Alter; Schulbildung; Land; Häufigkeit der
Aufenthalte im Westen; Geschlecht; Datum; Ort des Interviews;
Interviewernummer.

This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously negotiated process of give-and-take involving major parts of the population.

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of the International Brigades was commemorated in the German Democratic Republic. - ;AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of

The new East German economy: problems of transition, unification and institutional mismatch / Wendy Carlin -- Employment, welfare support and income distribution in East Germany / Chris Flockton -- The impact of German unification on the German industrial relations system / Karl Koch -- Housing situation and housing policy in East Germany / Chris Flockton -- The East German family: change and continuity / Mike Dennis -- Women, work and family in the new Länder: conflicts and experiences / Eva Kolinsky -- Education transformed? The East German school system since the Wende / Rosalind M.O. Pritchard -- Political participation of young people in East Germany / Hans Oswald and Christine Schmid -- Social transformation studies and human rights abuses in East Germany after 1945 / Anthony Glees -- Multiculturalism in the making? Non-Germans and civil society in the new Länder / Eva Kolinsky

Description based on: Jan. 1977; title from cover. ; Feb. 1989. ; Shipping list no.: 89-295-P. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vols. for -19 issued by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Domestic and International Business Administration, Bureau of International Commerce; by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, International Trade Administration. ; Merged with: Federal Republic of Germany (Washington, D.C.); to form: Germany (Washington, D.C.).