Preface; Chapter 1 The Chancellor and His Part y: Political Leadership in the Federal Republic, William E. Paterson; Chapter 2 Political Culture, Legitimacy and Part icipation, David P. Conradt; Chapter 3 The Politics of Economic Management in West Germany, K. H. F. Dyson; Chapter 4 The Federal Republic — A Conservative Revisionist, Jonathan Story; Chapter 5 Dimensions of West German Foreign Policy, Roger Morgan; Chapter 6 Détente at Work — The Record of Inter-German Relations, Helga Michalsky; Chapter 7 The 1980 Bundestag Election: A Case of ‘Normality’, Geoffrey Pridham; Chapter 8 What the 1980 Election did not Solve, Peter Pulzer; Chapter 9 Rethinking the German Past, Richard J. Evans; Chapter 10 The State, University Reform and the ‘Berufsverbot’, Roger Tilford; Chapter 11 Does West German Democracy Have An ‘Efficient Secret’?, Gordon Smith;