Politische Ordnungskonstruktion in den neuen Bundesländern

How do political orders emerge, and how are they stabilised and made permanent? In this book, these questions are examined using the emergence of the new federal states in Germany as an example. After German reunification, the establishment of political institutions was relatively quick due to the transfer of institutions from the old federal states, but the formation of a new, common political and cultural order was much more difficult to realise. Through a comprehensive analysis of East German post-reunification discourses and consideration of the common-sense and non-negotiable foundations of East German society, this study depicts a comprehensive picture of the processes involved in constructing political orders that goes beyond empirical surveys.