The Civic Culture and Unified Germany: An Overview

Conradt, David P.

doi:10.1080/09644008.2015.1021795

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“…Gender, age, and education are self-explanatory. Region was included because, more than 25 years after unification, striking differences in political attitudes remain between Eastern and Western Germany (Conradt, 2015). Finally, strength of self-identification as religious (as opposed to formal) membership was included because it may have an effect beyond and above political secularism.…”

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A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

Arzheimer

2020

Research & Politics

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The two-worlds framework is currently the most important account of morality policymaking in Europe. For this theory of elite behaviour to be valid, a number of implicit assumptions about political belief systems at the mass level must hold. This contribution spells out these assumptions and tests them within a structural equation modelling framework, using original survey data from Germany, a country that constitutes a crucial case for the two-worlds theory. The results showed that the implicit individual-level preconditions of the two-worlds framework were fulfilled. Political secularism and partisanship were strongly associated. Political secularism also had strong effects on morality policy preferences regarding the preferred regulation of abortion, embryo and stem cell research, and gene therapies, even when controlling for a host of background variables. However, the size of the effects did not vary across politicised and non-politicised issues. This casts some doubt over the ability of partisan actors to unilaterally control the morality policy agenda.

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A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

Arzheimer

2020

Research & Politics

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“…The latter should be less developed in younger democracies. For instance, many citizens of the five East German states, where the first democratic elections took place in 1990, grew up in a political culture that emphasized and pushed for equality and an interventionist state economy instead of capitalist principles that highlight personal liberties and, thus, favor entrepreneurship (Conradt ). Asked whether they prefer liberty over equality or equality over liberty, only a small majority of West Germans favored—at least for the time period between 1998 and 2011—the statement “liberty over equality,” while between 51 and 71 percent of East Germans chose “equality over liberty” (see Petersen , 7‐8).…”

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Support for Policies on Entrepreneurship and Self‐Employment among Parties and Coalition Governments

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We argue that political parties take not only the economic conditions into account when developing a position on entrepreneurship and selfemployment but also consider the "heritage" of a socialist state, which can influence the preferences of voters regarding this issue area. We test our hypotheses on the basis of an analysis of election manifestos and coalition agreements. We focus on the German case since unification allows for comparing electorates socialized in a market economy in the West German states and in a socialist economy in East Germany by holding the institutional setting constant. The results support our hypotheses that growing economic problems increase the saliency of entrepreneurship and self-employment and that differences between parties exist: Christian democratic and liberal parties emphasize entrepreneurship and self-employment in their manifestos more than green or socialist parties. In addition, governments including Christian democratic and liberals agree on more market-liberal policies in coalition agreements compared to left-wing governments.

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“…Es lógico pensar que en el momento en el que la segunda se integra en la primera su puntuación de democracia bajara, pues la cultura política de burócratas, políticos y ciudadanía sería menos democrática. Sin embargo, las puntuaciones de la República Federal Alemana apenas indican ningún cambio, a pesar de que hay estudios que explican diferencias claras en la cultura política de los dos territorios (Conradt, 2015).…”

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Los retos de medir la democracia: una revisión de los índices de democracia

Pulido Rodríguez

2024

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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Democracy and democratising or autocratising trends are topics that have attracted interest in both academia and public opinion. The main quantitative tools for monitoring democracy have been democracy indices, which have scored and ranked democracies based on their attributes. However, since the emergence of the first indices in the 1970s, the reality of democracy in the world has changed, both in the international context in which democracies develop, as

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The Civic Culture and Unified Germany: An Overview

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A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

A partial micro-foundation for the ‘two-worlds’ theory of morality policymaking: Evidence from Germany

Support for Policies on Entrepreneurship and Self‐Employment among Parties and Coalition Governments

Los retos de medir la democracia: una revisión de los índices de democracia

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