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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"German reunification"”.
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Hard Core Urbanism: Urban planning at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin after the German reunification
Hard Core Urbanism is the tendency to produce corporate enclaves within the fluid city. The garrison mentality denies the complex and interwoven processes exemplified by the history of Potsdamer Platz. Breaking the completeness of the corporate plan, the project initiates the process of …
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"Palimpsests on German Reunification: Functions of Theodor Fontane's Novels and Poetry in Guenter Grass' ""Too Far Afield"""
… main purpose---the whole-hearted criticism of German reunification---while frequently distorting the original meaning. However, by presenting several different voices, Grass does attempt to provide a balanced and honest picture of Fontane's political and artistic position---and to be sure, in …
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An Analysis of the Behavior of the Risk Premium in the German Deutschemark Forward Market: A Comparison of Pre- and Post-German Reunification of 1990 Exchange Rates
The German reunification of 1990 and the methods of economic integration exerted considerable pressure on both the German economy and the deutschemark. This thesis addresses the issue that the reunification undermined the stability of the deutschemark, detectable through a change in the implied …
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Gender Analysis of Politics, Economics and Culture of Korean Reunification: Toward a Feminist Theological Foundation for Reunified Society
… I have focused on the process for an eventual reunification of North and South Korea. In this process, Korean political, economic, cultural and religious issues are necessarily present. My study focuses on cultural and religious factors. I adopt the German reunification as a case study. The …
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The History Management of the East-Elbian Nobility After 1945
… brought about war, defeat and moral shame to Germany. The first phase of noble history management concerned an expressed ‘resistance against Hitler’ alignment and self-distancing from the regime. The second phase of history management strategically employed autobiographical and family …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
This dissertation examines the history behind German companies' failure to attain the highest level of world rationalization, a rigorously Taylorized shop floor combined with a workforce willing to lend their practical expertise to management for the sake of modernizing production. From the end of …
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The invention of the historic city : building the past in East Berlin, 1970-1990
… both remodeling and new construction, the East German leaders and their collaborators initiated a renaissance of once neglected neighborhoods, which after the German reunification became prime locations for upscale housing and retail.
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The Brandenburg Gates : unity, division, and reinvented tradition in post-wall Berlin
Twenty three years after the German Reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung), the once divided Berlin is still undergoing a process of recovery from the deep political, social, cultural, and physical divisions of the 20th century. Such divisions seem to have manifested themselves in every …
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The Dynamics of Size, Composition, and Fiscal Authority in Government Expenditures: Examining The Effects of Social Disturbance
… social disturbance by examining the effects of German reunification on government spending. This research tests several hypotheses using data on total spending and six major sub-policy spending categories between 1972 and 2006. First, this study identifies strong evidence of a large upward …
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Public education spending in the German Länder: adjustment to demographic shocks, politics, and cost efficiency
… dissertation, I examine three major aspects of Germany's education system from an empirical public finance perspective. First, I analyse the effects of strong demographic shifts by considering how the East German Länder responded to the rather dramatic decline in the number of students in …
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Grosse gelenkte Projekte in der Schule der Wendezeit
Die von mir vorgelegte Arbeit widmet sich insgesamt der Fragestellung, wie große gelenkte Projekte an einer ostdeutschen Schule in der Wendezeit durchgeführt wurden, was aus ihnen folgte und welche Konsequenzen für die Theorie der schulischen Projektarbeit daraus gezogen werden können. Insbesondere …
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Risk Homeostasis Reconsidered - The Limits of Traffic Safety Regulation
Die Risikohomeostasistheorie (RHT) ist ein formales Konzept zur Erklärung menschlichen Verhaltens im Straßenverkehr bei verändertem Unfallrisiko. Vor dem Hintergrund des gegenwärtigen Standes der Ökonometrie weisen die Untersuchungen zur RHT mittels langer Zeitreihen einige Schwächen auf. Im …