German Politics and Society

German Politics and Society is a scholarly journal that is reviewed by experts, published by Berghahn Journals. It stands out as the only American journal that examines contemporary Germany through the lenses of social sciences, history, and cultural studies. This journal serves as a platform for in-depth discussions and critiques on various topics such as politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in today's Germany. Each edition features articles from distinguished academics who provide insights on recent publications related to Germany.

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Feb 3, 2025 | berghahnjournals.com | Michelangelo Vercesi |Thomas Klikauer |Sabine von Mering |Ambika Natarajan

Ross Campbell and Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, eds., The 2021 German Federal Election (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023). Roman Sandgruber, Hitlers Vater: Wie der Sohn zum Diktator wurde (Vienna-Graz: Molden, 2021).
The Zeitenwende, State Traditions, and the Developmental Imperative in German Energy Policy

Nov 6, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Mark Vail

Mark I. Vail is Worrell Chair of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of advanced industrial countries, with an emphasis on social and economic policy, industrial relations, and the role of political ideologies in Western Europe.
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Aug 16, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Kate Stanton |Randall Newnham |Paul Carls |Michelangelo Vercesi

Joyce Marie Mushaben, What Remains?
The Experimental Catch-up Democratization of Intra-party Leadership Selection in Germany

Aug 16, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Benjamin Höhne

Benjamin Höhne is an interim professor of Comparative European Governance Systems at the Chemnitz University of Technology. In the 2023 summer term, he was an interim professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Münster. In 2022, he was a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He has published in journals such as Government and Opposition, Party Politics, and Representation.
Immigration, Integration, and Belonging in German Textbooks for Refugees

Aug 16, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Jason James

Jason James is professor of anthropology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His research focuses on national belonging and cultural memory in Germany. He is the author of Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany: Heritage Fetishism and Redeeming Germanness, published 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan, as well as articles on German and East German identity in the context of historic preservation and popular film.
“The Story's in the Telling”

Jun 1, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Jennifer Allsopp

I'm in a pizzeria in Italy with Kal, a 17-year-old unaccompanied migrant. I've invited him to talk to me about his future. He starts rapping, and my interview topic guide is momentarily abandoned. Kal's narrative has gathered its own direction and momentum. Like most of my research participants, and consistent with past research (Bertrand 2000; Phoenix 2019), after answering some questions, Kal began to narrate the challenges and dreams of his life in—and on—his own terms. Why ’em underrate da black?
The proxy war in Ukraine

Feb 29, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Chris Hann

Overwhelming empathy with all the civilians and conscripts who have suffered from the ongoing violence in Ukraine, which began years before the Russian invasion of February 2022, must be complemented by analysis and explanation. What can anthropologists contribute?
Party System Development in Times of Globalization

Jan 18, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Christian Martin

Christian Martin is the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Kiel, Germany. Between 2016 and 2021, he also held the Max Weber Visiting Chair of German and European Studies at New York University. Martin received his doctorate in political science from the University of Konstanz in 2002.
Energy, Ecology, and the Remaking of West German Politics in the 1970s and 1980s

Jan 18, 2024 | berghahnjournals.com | Stephen Gross

Stephen G. Gross is an associate professor in the Department of History and director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. His second monograph—Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change—came out with Oxford University Press in 2023. He also published an edited volume with Pittsburgh University Press, titled New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America.
Part 2: Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Organisations

Dec 1, 2023 | berghahnjournals.com | Christopher Newfield |Georgie Wemyss |Steffen Jöhncke |Annika Capelán

Christopher Newfield was Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently the Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. Working in critical university studies and contemporary cultural studies, he is the author of books on the U.S. university, the effects of quantification and U.S. literature and racial culture.