How to evaluate German unification?

Arbeitspapier

The title of this contribution is a question with a double meaning: On the one hand it refers to the method, on the other hand it refers to the results of German unification. After a preview of recent evaluations we discuss comparisons of the Federal Republic and the GDR from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. Five asymmetries between the two German states are delineated: Size and population, economic strength, migration, travel and mass-communication, massexit and mass protest. Next we resume our theses of a stabilizing transformation, East German counter arguments and the most recent research results on living-conditions, political culture, convergences and divergences.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WZB Discussion Paper ; No. FS III 00-404

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: Nationale Einheit ; Lebensqualität ; Vergleich ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Deutschland ; Neue Bundesländer

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Zapf, Wolfgang
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2000

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50191
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET