New Germany Votes Reunification and the Creation of a New German Party System [Paperback]

This volume examines the process of German unification from the perspective of the political parties, their voters and the parliamentary system. Leading specialists offer a first-class analysis of the attempts by the established German parties to address the problems of German union as a policy goal and to deal with the internal party changes induced by the events of 1989/90.

The book underlines the value of unification for the government parties in Bonn, and the damage it did to the opposition, the Greens and SPD. Central European HistoryRussell Dalton Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Politics and Society,University of California, Irvine