TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond Stability
T2 - Rethinking Germany’s Political Economy
AU - Rothstein, Sidney A.
AU - Schulze-Cleven, Tobias
N1 - Funding Information:
The editors thank all participants, including the many reviewers, of this special issue project. We are particularly grateful to Stephen J. Silvia, the late Wade Jacoby, and Dan Hough: Steve for his initial suggestion to emphasise the theme of imbalance, Wade for his encouragement to approach German Politics, and Dan for his sustained help in bringing this project to fruition. Early versions of many papers included in this special issue were originally presented during a workshop at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco in August 2017. Financial and organisational support were generously provided by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the DFG and the DAAD.
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PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - From the post-war period up to the early 2000s, (West) Germany was viewed as a paradigmatic case of institutional stability, successfully accommodating different social interests. Yet the past two decades have brought large-scale changes to the structures of Germany’s political and economic life. This article introduces a special issue that seeks to rethink Germany’s political economy by shifting the scholarly lens on Germany from stability to imbalance. After outlining the proposed paradigm shift, and introducing three vantage points from which to study the politics of imbalance, this article presents the main findings that contributors to the special issue unearthed as they engaged this theoretical agenda in their empirical analyses.
AB - From the post-war period up to the early 2000s, (West) Germany was viewed as a paradigmatic case of institutional stability, successfully accommodating different social interests. Yet the past two decades have brought large-scale changes to the structures of Germany’s political and economic life. This article introduces a special issue that seeks to rethink Germany’s political economy by shifting the scholarly lens on Germany from stability to imbalance. After outlining the proposed paradigm shift, and introducing three vantage points from which to study the politics of imbalance, this article presents the main findings that contributors to the special issue unearthed as they engaged this theoretical agenda in their empirical analyses.
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U2 - 10.1080/09644008.2020.1753702
DO - 10.1080/09644008.2020.1753702
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85085000121
SN - 0964-4008
VL - 29
SP - 289
EP - 296
JO - German Politics
JF - German Politics
IS - 3
ER -