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The Wall in the Mind - Revisited Stable Differences in the Political Cultures of Western and Eastern Germany
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Abstract Do lasting differences in the political cultures of social subgroups call into question the legitimacy of democracy? This danger has been discussed for three decades now, always in the run up to German Unity Day, which marks the reunification of Germany in 1990. Is there still a 'wall in people's mi... mehr
Do lasting differences in the political cultures of social subgroups call into question the legitimacy of democracy? This danger has been discussed for three decades now, always in the run up to German Unity Day, which marks the reunification of Germany in 1990. Is there still a 'wall in people's minds', as postulated in the late 1990s? This article examines the question comparatively and over time: Do political cultures and their main political attitudes still differ between Western and Eastern Germany 30 years after reunification? And, if so, to what extent? Using an extended concept of political support, we analyse East-West differences by drawing on different data material from representative surveys. What we show that there is no deficit of legitimacy in Eastern Germany in terms of democracy. Nevertheless, there are consistent East-West differences in terms of people's satisfaction with democracy as it is currently practised. These differences can be explained neither by existing socio-economic and socio-structural inequalities between Eastern and Western Germany, and nor by feelings of nostalgia for socialism. Rather, they are due to a combination of feelings of disadvantage, of a lack of recognition, and corresponding narratives that can draw on objective manifestations of inequality.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
ALLBUS; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; alte Bundesländer; neue Bundesländer; politische Kultur; Wiedervereinigung; Demokratie; politische Einstellung
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften ALLBUS - Kumulation 1980-2018 (ZA5274); Politbarometer 2009
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 20-42
Zeitschriftentitel
German Politics, 32 (2023) 1
Heftthema
A (New) East-West-Divide? Representative Democracy in Germany 30 Years after Unification
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2022.2072488
ISSN
Pickel, Gert
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0