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Instrumentalization of the wartime past for political gain is the subject of this study of eleven World War II commemorations.

The importance of subnational regions to politics, governance, and economic development in Western Europe has long been recognized. However, far less is known about recent steps to introduce a regional level of politics in East Central Europe. Reforms there are part of the larger process of crafting democracy, that is, regional reforms are linked to the economic and political transition away from communism and toward "Europe, " specifically th...

This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.

In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of the first generation of democratically elected political elites in the former GDR’s transition to democracy.Although the quick transplant of a ready...