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The Oxford Handbook of G E R M A N P O L I T I C S The Oxford Handbook of GERMAN POLITICS Edited by KLAUS LARRES, HOLGER MOROFF, and RUTH WITTLINGER Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2022 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2022 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2022935145 ISBN 978–0 – 19–8 81730– 7 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198817307.001.0001 Printed and bound in the UK by TJ Books Limited Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. In Memory of Prof. Ruth Wittlinger Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables xi List of Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Klaus Larres, Holger Moroff, and Ruth Wittlinger PART I: LEADING SCHOLARS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS OF GERMAN HISTORY FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT 1. E ncounters with Modernity: The German Search for Alternatives in the Twentieth Century 7 Konrad H. Jarausch 2. F rom Post- National Democracy to Post- Classical Nation-S tate 24 Heinrich August Winkler 3. E motional Styles in Post- War German Politics 33 Ute Frevert 4. Th e Development of Germany After 1945 45 Klaus von Beyme PART II: GERMANY DURING THE COLD WAR ERA 5. A tlantic Integration and ‘Ever Closer Union’: West Germany, the US, and European Unity during the Cold War 59 Klaus Larres 6. G ermany and the Soviet Union during the Cold War Era 82 Peter Ruggenthaler viii Table of Contents 7. Th e Governmental System and Political History of the GDR 103 Gert-J oachim Glaessner 8. Th e End of the Cold War and the Process of German Unification 119 Larissa R. Stiglich PART III: GERMANY SINCE 1990 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN 9. Th e Executive: The German Government and Civil Service 139 Ray Hebestreit and Karl-R udolf Korte 10. Th e German Bundestag: Core Institution in a Parliamentary Democracy 161 Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer and Sven T. Siefken 11. Th e Federal System and the Länder 179 Arthur Benz 12. Th e German Legal System and Courts 196 Russell A. Miller 13. Th e ‘Old Five’: The Bonn Parties in the Berlin Republic 216 David F. Patton 14. G ermany’s Political Parties—t he Newcomers 234 Hartwig Pautz POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POLICY-M AKING 15. Th e German Economic Model: From Germany’s Social Market Economy to Neo-l iberalism? 251 Christian Schweiger 16. G ermany’s Trading System and Export-D riven Economy 265 Andreas Busch 17. G ermany’s Banking and Financial System 285 Janine Jacob Table of Contents ix 18. Th e German Welfare State 304 Peter Starke 19. Th e Immigration System and the Rule of Law 323 Dietrich Thränhardt 20. The Merkel Era: Environmental Politics and the ‘Energiewende’ (Energy Transition) 339 Carl Lankowski CULTURE AND SOCIETY 21. D emographics and Generational Transition and Politics 367 Reinhold Sackmann 22. R eligion and the Churches 381 Detlef Pollack and Olaf Müller 23. J ewish Life and Politics in Post-W ar Germany 396 Joseph Cronin 24. Identity and Diversity in Post-U nification Germany 416 Priscilla Layne 25. G erman Literature, Theatre, and Film since 1990 432 Michael Braun 26. German Art After 1990 450 Marion Deshmukh PART IV: GERMANY IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS GERMANY AND EUROPE 27. G erman Foreign Policy: Roots, Reasonings, and Repercussions 469 Holger Moroff 28. Franco- German Relations and the European Integration Process since 1990 491 Carine Germond