Does Democracy Foster Trust? Evidence from the German Reunification [PDF]
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they ...
Thomas Siedler, Helmut Rainer
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‘AN AUSTRIAN FATE’: TRAUMA, REPRESSION AND WAR IN ADRIAN GOIGINGER'S DER FUCHS (2022)
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 351-364, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines one of the highest‐grossing films in recent years in Austria, Der Fuchs (Adrian Goiginger, 2022), which focuses on the friendship of the protagonist, a Wehrmacht soldier, with an abandoned fox cub, but in the process elides more than four years of the soldier's wartime experience.
Katya Krylova
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‘ZWISCHEN DEN ZEILEN’: A CLOSE READING OF STEFANIE‐LAHYA AUKONGO'S NEUROQUEER POETRY
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 365-383, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article analyses the multimodal poetry of Stefanie‐Lahya Aukongo (b. 1978) through the framework of neuroqueer theory (e.g. Nick Walker, M. Remi Yergeau), showing how her poetic practice exposes and destabilises socially constructed norms of neurotypicality.
Catherine Smale
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Italian reactions to German reunification - Prejudice and reciprocal misunderstandings
Cahiers du MIMMOC, 2012 Federico Trocini
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, 2019 This study uses the natural experiment of German reunification and a difference-in-differences approach to test whether the political and economic transition in East Germany in 1990 affected intergenerational occupational and educational mobility ...
Grätz, Michael,
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How to explain the German East-West divide in support of a populist radical right party (AfD): mapping socioeconomic, psychological, and cultural explanatory factors from a demand-side, voter-level perspective. [PDF]
Front SociolSiebel H, Horozoğlu G, Kessels U.
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Western Liberal‐Democratic Norms and Values: Why and How They Should Be Taught in Schools
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT In many Western liberal‐democratic countries, there have been increasing efforts over recent decades to teach democratic norms and values in the primary and secondary school systems. However, there has been little agreement on how such democratic education can be effectively implemented. This article argues that an underlying core principle of
Lars Dietrich, Petra Weber
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Appetitus Socialis Berolinensis
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal HistoryBusiness law is highly influenced by its political, social and, of course, economic surroundings. This is in particular true with respect to the socalled »Berlin Republic«, the socio-political context that emerged post-German-reunification.
Jan Thiessen
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Suicide mortality in eastern and western Germany, 1952-2022: Construction and validation of time series using joinpoint models with jump detection. [PDF]
PLoS OneNowossadeck E, Hövener C, Michalski N.
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The Wonders of Vanilla: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Synthetic Vanillin
ChemFoodChem, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.The year 2024 marked the 150th anniversary of the first commercial production of vanillin, one of the world's most cherished flavor ingredients. This review traces vanilla's history from Mesoamerica to modern production methods, examines its composition, the discovery of vanillin and Haarmann's early synthesis compared to modern methods, and highlights
Elisabetta Brenna +2 more
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