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The theme of party government is one which has attracted continually increasing attention in recent years. The two best known contributions by Richard Rose and Anthony King were focused, as one would expect from their provenance, fairly firmly on Britain and the United States.1 Kenneth Dyson and Gordon Smith have been notable among British political scientists in their analysis of the role and concept of party government in West Germany.2 In West Germany itself, the topic in its different facets has attracted the attention of a whole series of distinguished practitioners and analysts. Among the most influential have been Hans Apel, Gerhard Leibholz, Wilhelm Hennis, Gerhard Lehmbruch, Udo Bermbach and Peter Haungs.3
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Richard Rose, The Problem of Party Government (London, 1976), Penguin edition.
Anthony King, ‘Political Parties in Western Democracies’. Polity (1969), pp. 112–41.
Gordon Smith, Democracy in Western Germany: Parties and Politics in the Federal Republic (London, 1979).
Kenneth Dyson, Party, State and Bureaucracy in Western Germany (London, 1977).
Gerhard Leibholz, Strukturprobleme der modernen Demokratie (Karlsruhe, 1967).
Wilhelm Hennis, Verfassung und Verfassungswirklichkeit. Ein deutsches Problem (Tübingen, 1968).
Gerhard Lehmbruch, ‘Liberal Corporatism and Party Government’. Comparative Political Studies (April 1977) pp. 91–126.
Udo Bermbach, ‘Probleme des Parteienstaates: Der Fall Littmann’. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (October 1970) pp. 342–63.
Peter Haungs, Die Bundesrepublik — ein Parteienstaat? Kritische Anmerkungen zu einem wissenschaftlichen Mythos’, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen No. 4 (December 1973), pp. 505–25.
I. Crewe, J. Alt and B. Särlvik, ‘The Erosion of Partisanship 1964–75’ (paper presented to the PSA Conference, Nottingham, 1976).
D. Calleo, The German Problem Reconsidered: Germany and the World Order 1870 to the Present (Cambridge, 1978) p. 207.
Gordon Smith, ‘The Party Tradition in Germany and the Contemporary Party State’ (ASGP Conference, Loughborough, 1976).
Klaus von Beyme, ‘The Politics of Limited Pluralism: The Case of West Germany’. Government and Opposition (1978) pp. 263–87.
Otto Kirchheimer, ‘Der Wandel des westeuropäischen Parteiensystems’. Politische Vierteljahresschrift (1965) pp. 20 ff.
Cited by Otto Kirchheimer in R. Dahl, Political Oppositions in Western Democracies (Yale, Newhaven, 1966) p. 242.
See John Herz, ‘Social Democracy versus Democratic Socialism. An Analysis of SPD Attempts to Develop a Party Doctrine’. in Bernard E. Brown (ed.), Eurocommunism and Eurosocialism (New York, 1979) pp. 246–83.
See Eckhardt Barthel, ‘Verwaltung und Partei — wer bestimmt wen?’ Die Neue Gesellschaft, No. 12 (1978) pp. 998–9.
W. E. Paterson, Political Parties and the Making of Foreign Policy: The Case of the Federal Republic (PSA Conference, Exeter, April 1980).
Hans Daalder, in his article ‘Parties, Elites and Developments in Western Europe’. in Joseph La Palombara and Myron Weiner (eds), Political Parties and Political Development (Princeton, 1969) p. 75.
Dyson, op. cit., passim. Bärbel Steinkemper, ‘Klassische und politische Bürokraten in der Ministerialverwaltung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’ (Cologne, 1974).
See especially work by K. H. F. Dyson, also his article, ‘The Ambiguous Politics of Western Germany: Politicization in a State Society’. European Journal of Political Research, No. 7, 1979, pp. 375–96.
W. E. Paterson, ‘The German Social Democratic Party’. in Paterson and Thomas (eds), Social Democratic Parties in Western Europe (London, 1977).
Cited in G. Braunthal, ‘The Policy Function of the German Social Democratic Party’. Comparative Politics (July 1977) p. 142.
Table in Hans Kremendahl, Vertrauenskrise der Parteien (Berlin, 1978) p. 59.
Barthel, op. cit. W. D. Narr, H. Scheer and D. Spöri, SPD, Staatspartei oder Reformpartei? (Munich, 1976).
Klaus von Beyme, ‘The Changing Relations between Trade Unions and the German Social Democratic Party’. Government and Opposition (1978) p. 401.
Richard Löwenthal, ‘Why German Stability is so Insecure’. Encounter (December 1978) pp. 31–7.
Gerhard Lehmbruch, Social Partnership in West Germany (ASGP Conference, Liverpool, 1979).
K. von Beyme, Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Munich, 1979) p. 163.
Nevil Johnson, Die englische Krankheit (Stuttgart, 1977).
For criticism of the political parties, particularly the SPD from this perspective, see especially H. Scheer, Parteien kontra Bürger? — Die Zukunft der Parteiendemokratie (Munich, 1979).
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Paterson, W.E. (1982). Problems of Party Government in West Germany — A British Perspective. In: Döring, H., Smith, G. (eds) Party Government and Political Culture in Western Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16713-5_6
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