Social and Political Structures in West Germany最新文献

{"title":"The Limits of Political Satire: Cabaret in the Weimar Republic and the Federal Republic","authors":"Peter Jelavich","doi":"10.4324/9780429306198-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429306198-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312769,"journal":{"name":"Social and Political Structures in West Germany","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124641746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth Culture, Socialization, and Social Structure: How German Youth Has Changed Since the Adenauer Era","authors":"W. J. Hoag","doi":"10.4324/9780429306198-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429306198-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312769,"journal":{"name":"Social and Political Structures in West Germany","volume":"3 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131726200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guidelines for Cutting Budget Pies in West Germany: Incrementalist Rules-of-Thumb Versus Politically Determined Policy Priorities","authors":"Robert Rickards","doi":"10.4324/9780429306198-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429306198-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312769,"journal":{"name":"Social and Political Structures in West Germany","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129769893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"West German Elites: Cartel of Anxiety, Power Elite, or Responsive Representatives?","authors":"Ursula Hoffmann-Lange","doi":"10.4324/9780429306198-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429306198-5","url":null,"abstract":"Totalitarian elite '! Based on this typology, Dahrendorf analyzed the historical development of German elites (1967: ch. 14). Presenting an impressive array of evidence drawn from a broad variety of sources, he concluded that Imperial Germany had an authoritarian elite. This elite was dominated by the Prussian nobility, and its modern elements, the business elites, did not play a significant political role. With the transition to the Weimar Republic, new political groups came to power. This created a West German Elites 85 more heterogeneous national elite that was multiform in its outlooks but remained abstract beeause its members lacked social eohesion, thereby ereating problems of governanee. This vaeuum at the top was eventually filled by the totalitarian Nazi elite. Most of Dahrendorf's analysis deals with the eharaeter of the West German elite. Although it is beyond the scope of this ehapter to diseuss Dahrendorf's historical analysis, his conclusions regarding West German elites will be analyzed in more detail, starting with the first theoretieal question raised above: the question of the vertical integration of West German society. The Sodal Background oe West German Elites Radieal social scientists tend to devote mueh attention to the degree of openness of elite recruitment. This is normally measured by comparing the demographie eharacteristies of elites to those of a cross section of the population, Le., by studying the social representativeness of the elites. If they are predominantly recruited from a narrow social stratum (mostly from the upper or upper middle class), this is widely interpreted as showing that individuals from lower-class backgrounds are deliberately excluded from the power positions in a soeiety. All available empirieal evidence indicates that in virtually all societies elites are disproportionately reeruited from privileged social backgrounds (Putnam, 1976: eh. 2). Table 4.2 shows that this is also true for West German elites with respeet to four faetors: gender, social class origin, religious denomination, and edueation. The table includes two different referenee groups: the working population over 40 years of age and the more inelusive group of all West German adults.4 The reason for ineluding both reference groups is that praetieally all elites belong to the first subgroup, whieh itself is not representative of the population at large beeause it excludes a eonsiderable part of the West German adult population: students, housewives, the unemployed, and the retired. A eomparison of the working population over 40 years of age to the universe of all adults thus already explains a good deal, especially about the underrepresentation of females within the elite population. Dahrendorf, a long-time advocate of equality of opportunities, explicitly eritieized the narrow social basis from whieh the West German elites-with the exception of the politicians-have traditionally been drawn (1967: 238-250). However, this has ehange","PeriodicalId":312769,"journal":{"name":"Social and Political Structures in West Germany","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126720042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}