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The Politics of Economic Recession in Western Germany

In: Politics, Policy and the European Recession

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  • Kenneth Dyson

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From a comparative perspective West German political arrangement displayed remarkable adaptability and resilience in the face of the economic uncertainty and tension that the country experienced after 1973. Adaptability was encouraged by a complex, diffuse system of economic policy making whose organising theme was delegation and dialogue. At a political level it was assisted by a federal coalition government of Social Democrats (SPD) and Free Democrats (FDP) which from 1969 onwards ensured representation of worker, managerial and employer interests. The comparatively minor economic crisis of 1965–6 had produced a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) with the SPD, and the economic recession of 1966–7 had helped generate support for a neo-Nazi political party as well as the rise of Extra-Parliamentary Opposition. A new resilience was apparent in the complete failure of extremist political opposition of right or left to make significant electoral headway in the more deep-seated recession of the 1970s.

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  • Kenneth Dyson, 1982. "The Politics of Economic Recession in Western Germany," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Andrew Cox (ed.), Politics, Policy and the European Recession, chapter 2, pages 32-64, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05764-1_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05764-1_2
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