Part 1 The governmental system: structures of government, Gordon Smith; territorial government, Simon Bulmer; political leadership, Gordon Smith. Part 2 Politics and society: political ideology, Peter Pulzer; the German voter, Russell J.Dalton; the party system, Stephen Padgett. Part 3 Economic and social policy: economic policy, Kenneth Dyson; the politics of welfare, Steen Mangen. Part 4 Germany and the world: foreign and security policy, William E.Paterson; the European dimension, Simon Bulmer; inter-German relations, A.James McAdams. Part 5 Current issues: generation and gender, Eva Kolinsky; environmental politics, William E.Paterson; the trade unions, Andrei S.Markovits and Christopher H.Allen; public order and civil liberties, Gerard Braunthal; Germany in the 1990s, William E.Paterson and Gordon Smith.