Gregg O Kvistad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregg O Kvistad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregg |
| FAMILY NAME | O Kvistad |
| SIGNATURE | KVISTAD G O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Rise and Demise of German Statism: Loyalty and Political Membership
Accommodation or ‘cleansing: Germany's state employees from the old regime
Two theoretical traditions within comparative political analysis suggest very different answers to the question of what post‐transformation East Central European states should do with bureaucrats from the old regime. A state‐centred Weberian ‘competence’ institutionalism suggests a de‐politicised accommodation and retention of former officials. A society‐centred timing/intensity/mobilisation perspective suggests a politicised ‘cleansing’ of burea…
The ‘borrowed language’ of German unification: State, society and party identity
The political debate over German unification among the Federal Republic's party elites occurred in a highly compressed and potentially volatile political environment. As ‘fortune’, in Chancellor Kohl's words, assembled an agenda for German unification, party elites scrambled for conceptual frames to make sense of a rapidly shifting political terrain. In the nineteenth century dichotomisa‐tion of state and society, a powerful conceptual pairing in…
Radicals and the State: The Political Demands on West German Civil Servants
This article argues that ideas of the state are crucial for understanding contemporary politics in so-called “state-societies” like West Germany. It argues that the recent protracted and divisive political battle over state employee personnel policy in the Federal Republic needs to be understood as a conflict involving the power of two nineteenthcentury ideas of the German state, on the one hand, and the general modernization of the West German s…
Between state and society: Green political ideology in the mid‐1980s
This article discusses the political ideology of the Greens in the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid‐1980s. Finding limitations in both the survey research and ‘new social movement’ literatures, it argues that Germany's particular institutional and ideological traditions inform the Green alternative and that the powerful tradition of German statism affects Green ideology in two contradictory ways: positively, in that Greens employ statist im…
Radicals and the State: The Political Demands on West German Civil Servants
This article argues that ideas of the state are crucial for understanding contemporary politics in so-called “state-societies” like West Germany. It argues that the recent protracted and divisive political battle over state employee personnel policy in the Federal Republic needs to be understood as a conflict involving the power of two nineteenthcentury ideas of the German state, on the one hand, and the general modernization of the West German s…
Between state and society: Green political ideology in the mid‐1980s
This article discusses the political ideology of the Greens in the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid‐1980s. Finding limitations in both the survey research and ‘new social movement’ literatures, it argues that Germany's particular institutional and ideological traditions inform the Green alternative and that the powerful tradition of German statism affects Green ideology in two contradictory ways: positively, in that Greens employ statist im…
Accommodation or ‘cleansing: Germany's state employees from the old regime
Two theoretical traditions within comparative political analysis suggest very different answers to the question of what post‐transformation East Central European states should do with bureaucrats from the old regime. A state‐centred Weberian ‘competence’ institutionalism suggests a de‐politicised accommodation and retention of former officials. A society‐centred timing/intensity/mobilisation perspective suggests a politicised ‘cleansing’ of burea…
Between state and society: Green political ideology in the mid‐1980s
This article discusses the political ideology of the Greens in the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid‐1980s. Finding limitations in both the survey research and ‘new social movement’ literatures, it argues that Germany's particular institutional and ideological traditions inform the Green alternative and that the powerful tradition of German statism affects Green ideology in two contradictory ways: positively, in that Greens employ statist im…
Radicals and the State: The Political Demands on West German Civil Servants
This article argues that ideas of the state are crucial for understanding contemporary politics in so-called “state-societies” like West Germany. It argues that the recent protracted and divisive political battle over state employee personnel policy in the Federal Republic needs to be understood as a conflict involving the power of two nineteenthcentury ideas of the German state, on the one hand, and the general modernization of the West German s…
Accommodation or ‘cleansing: Germany's state employees from the old regime
Two theoretical traditions within comparative political analysis suggest very different answers to the question of what post‐transformation East Central European states should do with bureaucrats from the old regime. A state‐centred Weberian ‘competence’ institutionalism suggests a de‐politicised accommodation and retention of former officials. A society‐centred timing/intensity/mobilisation perspective suggests a politicised ‘cleansing’ of burea…
The ‘borrowed language’ of German unification: State, society and party identity
The political debate over German unification among the Federal Republic's party elites occurred in a highly compressed and potentially volatile political environment. As ‘fortune’, in Chancellor Kohl's words, assembled an agenda for German unification, party elites scrambled for conceptual frames to make sense of a rapidly shifting political terrain. In the nineteenth century dichotomisa‐tion of state and society, a powerful conceptual pairing in…
The Rise and Demise of German Statism: Loyalty and Political Membership
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