Introduction : Semisovereignty challenged / Simon Green and William E. Paterson --
Institutional transfer : can semisovereignty be transferred? The political economy of Eastern Germany / Wade Jacoby --
Political parties / Thomas Saalfeld --
Federalism : the new territorialism / Charlie Jeffery --
Shock-absorbers under stress : parapublic institutions and the double challenges of German unification and European integration / Andreas Busch --
Economic policy management : catastrophic equilibrium, tipping points and crisis intervention / Kenneth Dyson --
Industrial relations : from state weakness as strength to state weakness as weakness : welfare corporatism and the private use of the public interest / Wolfgang Streeck --
Social policy : crisis and transformation / Roland Czada --
Immigration and integration policy : between incrementalism and non-decisions / Simon Green --
Environmental policy : the law of dimishing returns? / Charles Lees --
Administrative reform : is public bureaucracy still an obstacle? / Klaus H. Goetz --
European policy-making : between associated sovereignty and semisovereignty / William E. Paterson --
Conclusion : Semisovereignty in united Germany / Peter J. Katzenstein.