2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Political transformation of Germany since Unification
| Project/Area Number |
20530101
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Satoru The University of Tokyo, 法学部, 教授 (60466729)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YASUI Hiroki 神戸大学, 法学研究科, 准教授 (60396695)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 比較政治 / ドイツ政治 / ヨーロッパ政治 |
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| Research Abstract |
The project's central research interest was on the political transformation of Germany since unification. In the area of domestic politics, the reform processes of the Schroder government's social security and employment policies and their consequences were analyzed comprehensively against the backdrop of a political structure characterized by divided government. The findings of these analyses have been published extensively in several journals. In the area of foreign policy, it was found that as a result of the end of the Cold War as well as two distinct types of Europeanization, Germany developed what we term "uploading multilateralism" in addition to the traditional "downloading multilateralism", and thereby paradoxically acquired some leeway to pursue national interests by embedding them in a multilateral context.
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