The Integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic: Challenges and Constraints

Rudi Schmidt

Chapter 7 in The Transformation of State Socialism, 2007, pp 131-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Societies are fundamentally shaped by institutional structures, norms and values guiding action and actors. It is assumed that in democratic societies these three levels should tend more or less toward harmony (coinciding correspondence) and that these societies draw their dynamic from the unequal development of these levels. The specific tensions and challenges, which resulted from the transformation after 1989, were due to the fact that a rapid and often radical institutional conversion met hesitation to adapt on the part of the citizens. This hesitation was often reinforced by the fact that the institutions did not hold what was promised or that, for example, the norms of the competitive exchange society collided with the internalized values of the old (state socialist) society.

Keywords: Work Council; Mass Layoff; East German State; German Union; East German Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230591028_7

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