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Letter from Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Klaus von Beyme
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VIEWED FROM THE OUTSIDE WEST GERMANY SEEMS TO BE AN oasis of stability. The dullness of such a political system has been alleviated, however, by the rise of the Green and alternative movements. Why should Germany become a Mecca for the alternative movements, when so many scholars have testified over the years that its political culture tends to be legalistic, not conflict-oriented or tolerant of unconventional behaviour? Most observers from abroad have attempted to answer this question in terms of value change, motivational or economic crisis theories.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , 01 October 1988 , pp. 465 - 470
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1988

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