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Our final task is twofold: first, to reflect on the concrete achievements of extra-parliamentary protest within the context of mainstream politics in the Federal Republic; and secondly, to sketch out a structural framework enabling us to speculate on the significance of these developments for the political culture of West Germany.
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A very high percentage of the German electorate consists of Wechselwähler (floating voters), encouraged both by social mobility and a voting system which asks the voter to cast his/her vote twice: for the constituency candidate and, separately, for the party of his/her choice. Cf. also the Wahlanalyse commissioned by the CDU, discussed in, ‘Aber was heißt Zeitgeist?’, Die Zeit, No. 39, (18 September 1987), pp. 4/5.
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For a closer definition cf. M. Jänicke, Staatsversagen. Die Ohnmacht der Politik in der Industriegesellschaft (Munich/Zurich, 1986) p. 138.
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Burns, R., van der Will, W. (1988). Conclusion: Changes in the Nature of the Political Culture since the Late 1960s. In: Protest and Democracy in West Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19521-3_9
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