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The Impact of Corporatism and Quasi-Civil Society on Anti-Racial Discrimination Law and Policy in Germany

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A formal legal prohibition of racial discrimination existed in German law before this appeared in UK law. Britain may have passed its first Race Relations Act in 1965, but Germany began the post-war period with an explicit constitutional prohibition of racial discrimination. This was part of the new beginning after the Second World War – 1945 became ‘Stunde Null’ – and it was established with the institution of a brand new constitution in 1949. Protection against racial discrimination in the public sphere was entrenched in article 3 (3)1 of the constitution (das Grundgesetz, GG2). Article 3 (3) GG provides that no person shall be favoured or disfavoured because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions. No person shall be disfavoured because of disability.

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  1. London Metropolitan University, UK

    Stefano Fella (Former Lecturer in Politics) (Former Lecturer in Politics)

  2. Universities of Leicester, UK

    Carlo Ruzza (Professor of Political Sociology) (Professor of Political Sociology)

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Solanke, I. (2013). The Impact of Corporatism and Quasi-Civil Society on Anti-Racial Discrimination Law and Policy in Germany. In: Fella, S., Ruzza, C. (eds) Anti-Racist Movements in the EU. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284662_5

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