Vol. 20 · No. 2 · Issue 63 · Summer 2002 · pp. 1-48 (48)
How Culture Matters
Culture and Social Change in the Federal Republic of Germany

John S. Brady and Sarah Elise Wiliarty

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Abstract
In December 1995, the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley hosted the conference, "The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Prosperity, Democracy, and Nationhood." During the proceedings and in the edited volume that resulted, conference contributors explored the reasons for Germany's success in making the transition to a liberal democratic polity supported by a rationalized national identity and a modern, dynamic capitalist economy. In charting postwar Germany's success, the contributors weighed the relative contribution institutional, cultural, and international variables made to the country's transformation.