I.  Introduction: the German Model

A.  Democracy "in a hurry"
B.  Achievements
        1.  Economic Miracle
        2.  European Union
        3.  Multiparty Parliamentary Democracy
        4.  Social Market Economy
C.  Collective Action

II.  Making of the German State

A.  Geographic Setting
B.  Critical Junctures:  Evolution of Democracy
        1.  Unification (1871)
        2.  Second Reich (1871-1918)
        3.  Weimar Democracy (1918-1933)
        4.  Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
        5.  Postwar Democracy in the West

III.  Political Economy

A.  Historical Background
B.  Organized Capitalism/Flexible Economy
C.  Social Market Economy
D.  Welfare

IV.  Political Institutions

A. Basic Law
B.  Organization of the State
        1.  Legislature
        2.  Executive
                a.  Federal Chancellery
        3.  Semipublic Institutions
                a.  Unions
                b.  co-determination
        4.  Judiciary
                a.  civil-criminal courts
                b.  Special Constitutional Court
                c.  Administrative Court
C.  Policy Making
        1.  corporatism

V.  Germany at the Crossroads

A.  Emerging intolerance for foreigners
        1.  Gastarbeiten
        2.  citizenship
B.  Difficulties in unification
        1.  economic problems
        2.  cultural integration
C.  European Integration
D.  Political role on the world stage