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A 'Usable' Past at last? The Politics of the Past in United Germany (2010)
Journal Article
Wittlinger, R., & Boothroyd, S. (2010). A 'Usable' Past at last? The Politics of the Past in United Germany. German Studies Review, 33(3), 489-502

The two decades since unification have witnessed considerable changes in German collective memory. Whereas views about the place that the Nazi past should occupy in Germany’s historical consciousness were still very polarized a few years before the f... Read More about A 'Usable' Past at last? The Politics of the Past in United Germany.

Parliamentary Heads of State: Players or Figureheads? The Case of Horst Köhler (2010)
Journal Article
Strohmeier, G., & Wittlinger, R. (2010). Parliamentary Heads of State: Players or Figureheads? The Case of Horst Köhler. West European Politics, 33(2), 237-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380903538856

In non-presidential systems the head of state is either a monarch or a president elected directly by the voters or by an assembly. The political powers of heads of state in non-presidential systems vary from being powerful to being just a symbolic fi... Read More about Parliamentary Heads of State: Players or Figureheads? The Case of Horst Köhler.