The New Germany in the East

Policy Agendas and Social Developments since Unification
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8134-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

The unification of Germany extended the economic and political system of the West to the East. This led to a "problematic normalization" as East Germans adjusted to uncertainties in employment, education, family life and immigration. This work considers the problems of the socialist legacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flockton, Chris

Kolinsky, Eva

Pritchard, Rosalind

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The new Germany in the East - an introduction, Chris Flockton et al. Part 1 The new Germany in Europe: political transition, social transformation and the welfare agenda, Steen Mangen; towards a new deal? recasting social policy in Europe, Ilona Oster; policy agendas and the economy in Germany and Europe, Chris Flockton. Part 2 Ten years on - the new Germany since unification: perceptions of GDR society and its transformation ten years after unity, Mike Dennis; employment, gender and the dual transformation in Germany, Hildegard Maria Nickel; pre-school education and childcare in East Germany, Rosalind Pritchard; unexpected newcomers - asylum seekers and other non-Germans in the new Lander, Eva Kolinsky; legacies of exclusion - the memory of terror and the creation of civil values in the new Bundeslander, Anthony Glees. Part 3 Social experiences and attitude change: mother-child interactions at the passage from childhood to youth - a comparison of East and West German families, Beate Schuster; parenting in times of social transformation, Harald Uhlendorff; investigating change in the way children deal with time, Dieter Kirchhofer; managing unemployment - experiences and strategies of women in the new Bundeslander, Vanessa Beck violence against women - sexual offences and victim support in Saxony-Anhait, Ingrid Holzler; recasting civil society in East Germany, Jonathan Grix.

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Flockton, Eva Kolinsky, Rosalind Pritchard