Helga A Welsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helga A Welsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helga A |
| FAMILY NAME | Welsh |
| SIGNATURE | WELSH H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inner Unity and Regional Diversity in Unified Germany
German unification prompted expectations of harmonization in political culture and promises of equivalent living conditions across the federation. Almost three decades later, the revival of narratives based on East-West differences has raised concerns whether inner unity, a term coined to describe political and material convergence across the former East-West divide, has stagnated or fallen behind. Frustration with the process of unification base…
Post-Communist Transitional Justice
Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictators…
Education, Federalism and the 2013 Bundestag Elections
The cycle of introducing and recalibrating reforms has become a hallmark of German education policy; progress in updating institutions and policies and educational outcomes is dogged by chronic problems. The drivers of change have been a medley of interests, actors, and socio-economic conditions. Institutional change has blended with established policy-making patterns and a move towards greater ideological pragmatism. Due to its national signific…
Party Formation and Dilemmas of Opportunity Structure
The Freie Wähler (free voters, FW) offer the rare chance to analyze parties in the making. Their long-time anchoring in local elections, centrist, middle-class political orientation, and bifurcated organizational structure distinguish them from other new political parties that aspire to participate in Land (state), national and European elections. Against the backdrop of FW success in Bavaria, where they received 10.2 percent of the vote in 2008,…
Higher Education in Germany
After the two German states unified in 1990, the tendency to transplant West German practices to the former East Germany was particularly pronounced in areas where systemic differences and perceived inefficiency met ideological reservations. The higher education system was among them. Comprehensive institutional, policy, and personnel transfer from West to East ensued. Starting in the mid 1990s after many failed initiatives, however, new policies…
Higher Education Reform in Germany
Characterized by a highly complex and segmented decision-making structure and strong conventions and values, German higher education was long considered impervious to significant change. In recent years, several initiatives demonstrate both the resistance to, and prospects for, profound reforms. This article focuses on two such endeavors: the establishment of junior professorships and the introduction of general tuition fees. Both policies aim to…
When discourse trumps policy
Attempts at realising transitional justice can be divided broadly into legal-administrative and truth-telling measures. Whereas criminal trials, vetting, and restitution procedures target specific groups and tend to be short-lived, history lessons try to shape historical and political identities, with long-term implications. Most literature on transitional justice tends to focus on either one or the other, but, using the example of the former Eas…
German Politics
2004). German Politics: Patterns of Continuity and Change. West European Politics: Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 964-970
The Elite Conundrum in the GDR
The German Predicament
German Unification
Introduction - models of unification, M. Donald Hancock and Helga A. Welsh. Part 1 Background and impetus: the German question since 1945, Johannes Kuppe the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe - evolution, revolution and diffusion, H.A. Welsh. Part 2 Politics of unification - process and outcomes: exiting the GDR - political movements and parties between democratization and Westernization, Michaela W. Richter reform vs transformation, Henry …
Dealing with the communist past
Parliamentary elites in times of political transition
This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of elite and institutional (in this case parliamentary) changes in times of political transitions, and more specifically, to a better understanding of the political changes currently under way in Germany. In doing so, it illuminates patterns of élite change by looking at the composition of the state diets (Landtage) in the five new federal states which were created in October 1990. The fo…
The PDS in the new German party system
The success of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) cannot be explained solely with a rising tide of GDR nostalgia and/or with the efficiency of PDS members as service providers and advocates at the grass‐roots level. We stress the importance of the PDS as the main political representative of a specific socio‐economic and cultural milie in the former GDR. Furthermore, the article traces the evolution of the PDS from a populist voice of protest…
Political Transition Processes in Central and Eastern Europe
La « troisieme vague » de democratisation dans les pays d'ancien regime communiste d'Europe Centrale et d'Europe de l'Est a developpe les etudes portant sur les causes et les effets des transitions politiques mises en place. Cet article se concentre sur les choix et les strategies politiques en soulignant les nouveaux modes de resolution des conflits dans les processus de transition des regimes autoritaires aux polyarchies. Apres avoir resume les…
Revolutianer Wandel auf Befehl? Entnazifierungs und Personalpolitik in Thuringen und Sachsen (1945-1948)
Revolutionärer Wandel auf Befehl?
Da die Entnazifizierung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone von Anfang an neben der Abrechnung mit dem Nationalsozialismus auch als Mittel der politischen und sozialen Umstrukturierung genutzt wurde, war sie in ihrer Durchführung konsequenter und in ihrer Wirkung weitreichender als in den westlichen Besatzungszonen Deutschlands. Anhand der Schwerpunkte Verwaltung, Schule und Justiz stellt die Autorin die enge Verknüpfung von politischer Säuberung …
Errichtung des Arbeiter- und Bauern-Staates der DDR 1945-1949
Political Transition Processes in Central and Eastern Europe
La « troisieme vague » de democratisation dans les pays d'ancien regime communiste d'Europe Centrale et d'Europe de l'Est a developpe les etudes portant sur les causes et les effets des transitions politiques mises en place. Cet article se concentre sur les choix et les strategies politiques en soulignant les nouveaux modes de resolution des conflits dans les processus de transition des regimes autoritaires aux polyarchies. Apres avoir resume les…
Dealing with the communist past
The PDS in the new German party system
The success of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) cannot be explained solely with a rising tide of GDR nostalgia and/or with the efficiency of PDS members as service providers and advocates at the grass‐roots level. We stress the importance of the PDS as the main political representative of a specific socio‐economic and cultural milie in the former GDR. Furthermore, the article traces the evolution of the PDS from a populist voice of protest…
Parliamentary elites in times of political transition
This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of elite and institutional (in this case parliamentary) changes in times of political transitions, and more specifically, to a better understanding of the political changes currently under way in Germany. In doing so, it illuminates patterns of élite change by looking at the composition of the state diets (Landtage) in the five new federal states which were created in October 1990. The fo…
Education, Federalism and the 2013 Bundestag Elections
The cycle of introducing and recalibrating reforms has become a hallmark of German education policy; progress in updating institutions and policies and educational outcomes is dogged by chronic problems. The drivers of change have been a medley of interests, actors, and socio-economic conditions. Institutional change has blended with established policy-making patterns and a move towards greater ideological pragmatism. Due to its national signific…
Party Formation and Dilemmas of Opportunity Structure
The Freie Wähler (free voters, FW) offer the rare chance to analyze parties in the making. Their long-time anchoring in local elections, centrist, middle-class political orientation, and bifurcated organizational structure distinguish them from other new political parties that aspire to participate in Land (state), national and European elections. Against the backdrop of FW success in Bavaria, where they received 10.2 percent of the vote in 2008,…
Higher Education in Germany
After the two German states unified in 1990, the tendency to transplant West German practices to the former East Germany was particularly pronounced in areas where systemic differences and perceived inefficiency met ideological reservations. The higher education system was among them. Comprehensive institutional, policy, and personnel transfer from West to East ensued. Starting in the mid 1990s after many failed initiatives, however, new policies…
Higher Education Reform in Germany
Characterized by a highly complex and segmented decision-making structure and strong conventions and values, German higher education was long considered impervious to significant change. In recent years, several initiatives demonstrate both the resistance to, and prospects for, profound reforms. This article focuses on two such endeavors: the establishment of junior professorships and the introduction of general tuition fees. Both policies aim to…
Errichtung des Arbeiter- und Bauern-Staates der DDR 1945-1949
Revolutionärer Wandel auf Befehl?
Da die Entnazifizierung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone von Anfang an neben der Abrechnung mit dem Nationalsozialismus auch als Mittel der politischen und sozialen Umstrukturierung genutzt wurde, war sie in ihrer Durchführung konsequenter und in ihrer Wirkung weitreichender als in den westlichen Besatzungszonen Deutschlands. Anhand der Schwerpunkte Verwaltung, Schule und Justiz stellt die Autorin die enge Verknüpfung von politischer Säuberung …
Revolutianer Wandel auf Befehl? Entnazifierungs und Personalpolitik in Thuringen und Sachsen (1945-1948)
Political Transition Processes in Central and Eastern Europe
La « troisieme vague » de democratisation dans les pays d'ancien regime communiste d'Europe Centrale et d'Europe de l'Est a developpe les etudes portant sur les causes et les effets des transitions politiques mises en place. Cet article se concentre sur les choix et les strategies politiques en soulignant les nouveaux modes de resolution des conflits dans les processus de transition des regimes autoritaires aux polyarchies. Apres avoir resume les…
The PDS in the new German party system
The success of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) cannot be explained solely with a rising tide of GDR nostalgia and/or with the efficiency of PDS members as service providers and advocates at the grass‐roots level. We stress the importance of the PDS as the main political representative of a specific socio‐economic and cultural milie in the former GDR. Furthermore, the article traces the evolution of the PDS from a populist voice of protest…
German Unification
Introduction - models of unification, M. Donald Hancock and Helga A. Welsh. Part 1 Background and impetus: the German question since 1945, Johannes Kuppe the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe - evolution, revolution and diffusion, H.A. Welsh. Part 2 Politics of unification - process and outcomes: exiting the GDR - political movements and parties between democratization and Westernization, Michaela W. Richter reform vs transformation, Henry …
Dealing with the communist past
Parliamentary elites in times of political transition
This article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of elite and institutional (in this case parliamentary) changes in times of political transitions, and more specifically, to a better understanding of the political changes currently under way in Germany. In doing so, it illuminates patterns of élite change by looking at the composition of the state diets (Landtage) in the five new federal states which were created in October 1990. The fo…
The German Predicament
The Elite Conundrum in the GDR
German Politics
2004). German Politics: Patterns of Continuity and Change. West European Politics: Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 964-970
When discourse trumps policy
Attempts at realising transitional justice can be divided broadly into legal-administrative and truth-telling measures. Whereas criminal trials, vetting, and restitution procedures target specific groups and tend to be short-lived, history lessons try to shape historical and political identities, with long-term implications. Most literature on transitional justice tends to focus on either one or the other, but, using the example of the former Eas…
Higher Education Reform in Germany
Characterized by a highly complex and segmented decision-making structure and strong conventions and values, German higher education was long considered impervious to significant change. In recent years, several initiatives demonstrate both the resistance to, and prospects for, profound reforms. This article focuses on two such endeavors: the establishment of junior professorships and the introduction of general tuition fees. Both policies aim to…
Higher Education in Germany
After the two German states unified in 1990, the tendency to transplant West German practices to the former East Germany was particularly pronounced in areas where systemic differences and perceived inefficiency met ideological reservations. The higher education system was among them. Comprehensive institutional, policy, and personnel transfer from West to East ensued. Starting in the mid 1990s after many failed initiatives, however, new policies…
Party Formation and Dilemmas of Opportunity Structure
The Freie Wähler (free voters, FW) offer the rare chance to analyze parties in the making. Their long-time anchoring in local elections, centrist, middle-class political orientation, and bifurcated organizational structure distinguish them from other new political parties that aspire to participate in Land (state), national and European elections. Against the backdrop of FW success in Bavaria, where they received 10.2 percent of the vote in 2008,…
Education, Federalism and the 2013 Bundestag Elections
The cycle of introducing and recalibrating reforms has become a hallmark of German education policy; progress in updating institutions and policies and educational outcomes is dogged by chronic problems. The drivers of change have been a medley of interests, actors, and socio-economic conditions. Institutional change has blended with established policy-making patterns and a move towards greater ideological pragmatism. Due to its national signific…
Post-Communist Transitional Justice
Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictators…
Inner Unity and Regional Diversity in Unified Germany
German unification prompted expectations of harmonization in political culture and promises of equivalent living conditions across the federation. Almost three decades later, the revival of narratives based on East-West differences has raised concerns whether inner unity, a term coined to describe political and material convergence across the former East-West divide, has stagnated or fallen behind. Frustration with the process of unification base…
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