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This lecture gives an overview over the most important structures and developments of the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany.
This lecture gives an overview over the most important structures and developments of the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. From a historical and systematic angle the following points will be discussed: The Grundgesetz (The Basic Law) on the background of the German constitutional history; basic decisions of the foreign policy 1945-55; structures of the institutions of the parliamentary democracy; the German party system with its structures and developments; federalism inclusive the financial constitution; interest groups and interest provision; media structures and the public; consequences of the German unification for the political system; interdependencies of the German and the European political system.
Lecture in German, tutorials in English.
