POLS 2510 Lecture 20: POLS 2510 LECTURE 20
8 Dec 2017
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France has made efforts to improve accountability. The 5th republic has been good at broadening representation. But it doesn"t allow a diversity of political parties as the 4th republic. Germany constitution: effort to create a broad based consensus. With more than 300 political units, there is a development in local governance. This is important because of regions of patronage. With napoleon, there"s another layer to this. He occupies germany, and there is a development of a nationalism. Germany ends up having a blossoming of literature and theories of nationalism. Herder, romantic poetic movement, poetry of being german. Prussia ends up dominating the german world, wins the war against austria and wins the. In germany, the notion of a region is very important. Its an identity that is mingled with regionalism german space. Prussia ends up creating the north german federation. The first attempt at creating political unity in the german states. Prussia accepts the concept of regional governance.
