Vol. 20 · No. 2 · Issue 63 · Summer 2002 · pp. 1-48 (48)
Political Culture in Unified Germany
The First Ten Years

David P. Conradt

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Abstract
After ten years of research on Germany's postunification political culture, there is no scholarly consensus on the critical questions of east-west differences, the impact of unification on western German culture, and developmental trends in the two regions. These questions have become more acute in the light of decreased eastern economic growth, high unemployment, and growing evidence of a radical right-wing subculture in the new states.