German Politics and So...
German Politics and Society
Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
Subjects: German Studies, Politics, Sociology, History, Economics, Cultural Studies
Available on JSTOR
A joint publication of the BMW Center for German and European Studies (of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). These centers are represented by their directors on the journal's Editorial Committee.
Issue 2 (Jun 2018): Politics and Power after the 2017 Bundestag Election, pp. 1-132
Issue 1 (Mar 2018): The 2017 Bundestag Election and its Aftermath, pp. 1-124
Issue 2 (Jun 2017): Sounds German? Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational. Guest Editor: Kirkland A. Fulk, pp. 1-137
Issue 1 (Mar 2017): pp. 1-99
Issue 4 (Dec 2016): Plurals of Pegida: New Right Populism and the Rhetoric of the Refugee Crisis. Guest Editors: Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes, pp. 1-118
Issue 1 (Mar 2016): pp. 1-121
Issue 4 (Dec 2015): Green Politics in Germany. Guest Editors: Stephen Milder and Konrad H. Jarausch, pp. 1-140
Issue 1 (Jun 2015): The Importance of Being German: Narratives and Identities in the Berlin Republic. Guest Editors: Isabelle Hertner, Joanne Sayner, and Sarah Colvin, pp. 1-185
Issue 4 (Dec 2014): pp. 1-96
Issue 3 (Sep 2014): The 2013 Bundestag Election (Part II), pp. 1-97
Issue 1 (Mar 2014): West Germany's Cold War Radio: The Crucible of the Transatlantic Century. Guest Editor: Yuliya Komska, pp. 1-109
Issue 4 (Dec 2013): German-Polish Border Regions in Contemporary Culture and Politics: Between Regionalism and Transnationalism. Guest Editors: Friederike Eigler and Astrid Weigert, pp. 1-120
Issue 2 (Jun 2013): The Fiftieth Anniversary of Migration from Turkey to Germany. Guest Editor: Asiye Kaya, pp. v-149
Issue 1 (Mar 2013): The Élysée Treaty at Fifty. Guest Editor: Francesca Vassallo, pp. iv-137
Issue 3 (Sep 2011): Cosmopolitanism and the Study of German Politics, pp. 1-114
Issue 2 (Jun 2011): The Berlin Wall after Fifty Years: 1961-2011, pp. 1-106
Issue 3 (Sep 2010): 2009 Bundestag Election, pp. 1-188
Issue 2 (Jun 2010): From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: The Twentieth Anniversary of German Unification, pp. 1-202
Issue 1 (Mar 2010): From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: The Twentieth Anniversary of German Unification, pp. 1-214
Issue 2 (Jun 2009): The German Parties before the 2009 Bundestag Election. Guest Editor: Ingolfur Blühdorn, pp. 1-107
Issue 4 (Dec 2008): Dynamics of Memory in 21st Century Germany. Guest Editors: Eric Langenbacher, Bill Niven, and Ruth Wittlinger, pp. 1-169
Issue 2 (Jun 2007): Western Integration, German Unification and the Cold War: The Adenauer Era in Perspective. Guest Editor: Jost Dülffe, pp. 1-210
Issue 4 (Dec 2006): Social Integration in the New Berlin, pp. 1-171
Issue 1 (Mar 2006): The 2005 Bundestag Elections, pp. 1-153
Issue 3 (Sep 2005): Transformations of the Past in Contemporary German Politics and Culture. Guest Editors: Friederike Eigler and Eric Langenbacher, pp. 1-134
Issue 2 (Jun 2005): pp. vi-121
Issue 1 (Mar 2005): Essays in Honor of Hinrich C. Seeba, pp. 1-198
Issue 2 (Jun 2004): pp. 1-97
Issue 1 (Mar 2003): The Federal Election of 2002, pp. 1-180
Issue 3 (Sep 2002): pp. vi-141
Issue 2 (Jun 2002): How Culture Matters: Culture and Social Change in the Federal Republic of Germany, pp. 1-175
Issue 1 (Mar 2002): pp. vi-152
Issue 4 (Dec 2000): George L. Mosse Memorial Symposium, pp. vi-142
Issue 3 (Sep 2000): Eastern Germany Ten Years After Unification, pp. vi-170
Issue 3 (Sep 1999): The Dilemmas of Commemoration: German Debates on the Holocaust in the 1990s, pp. vi-171
Issue 1 (Mar 1998): pp. v-134
EXPLAINING GERMANY'S ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY
By: Steven Wuhs and Eric McLaughlin
STICKING TO HER GUNS OR GOING WITH THE FLOW
By: Christian Schnee
WHEN THE EXIT?
By: Tessa Coggio and Thane Gustafson
By: Hilary Silver and et al.
Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2019
Explaining Germany's Electoral Geography: Evidence from the Eastern States
Steven Wuhs and Eric McLaughlin, Political Science, University of Redlands
Sticking to Her Guns or Going with the Flow: Assessing Rigidity and Flexibility in Angela Merkel's Political Decision Making
Christian Schnee, Business, University of Greenwich
When the Exit? The Difficult Politics of German Coal
Tessa Coggio, German and European Studies and Thane Gustafson, Government, Georgetown University
Rafaela Dancygier, Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Hilary Silver, Sociology, George Washington University
Thomas Großbölting, Losing Heaven: Religion in Germany since 1945; translated by Alex Skinner (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Luppes, World Languages, Indiana University South Bend
Hans Vorländer, Maik Herold, and Steven Schäller, PEGIDA and New Right-Wing Populism in Germany (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Reviewed by Joyce M. Mushaben, Political Science, University of Missouri St. Louis
Kara L. Ritzheimer, "Trash," Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Ambika Natarajan, History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University
Anna Saunders, Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory After 1989 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018)
Desmond Dinan, Neill Nugent, and William E. Paterson, ed., The European Union in Crisis (London: Palgrave, 2017)
Reviewed by Helge F. Jani, Hamburg, Germany
Noah Benezra Strote, Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Darren O' Byrne, History, University of Cambridge
Chunjie Zhang, Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Christopher Thomas Goodwin, History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Marcel Fratzscher, The Germany Illusion: Between Economic Euphoria and Despair (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Reviewed by Stephen J. Silvia, International Relations, American University
Volume 37 / 2019, 4 issues per volume (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
German Politics and Society is a joint publication of the BMW Center for German and European Studies (of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). These centers are represented by their directors on the journal's Editorial Committee.
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Jonathan Bach, The New School
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Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami
Richard Deeg, Temple University
Mary Fullbrook, University College London
Hope Harrison, George Washington University
Dagmar Herzog, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University
Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto
Charles Maier, Harvard University
Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University
Joyce M. Mushaben, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Scarrow, University of Houston
Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University
Stephen Silvia, American University
Hilary Silver, Brown University
Helga Welsh, Wake Forest University
Sarah Wiliarty, Wesleyan University
Ruth Wittlinger, Durham University
Jennifer Yoder, Colby College
Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University
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