Anne Sa'adah is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.

• Introduction - political reconciliation and democratization; the disappointments of democratization; no trust, no democracy -the citizens' movements and the reconciliation debate, 1989-90; after the lie - democratic legitimacy without community?; successor justice - the appeal to common sense and the redefinition of justice; compromising compromises - the Stolpe case; the crisis of democracy, the PDS and party politics in unified Germany; conclusion - identity and trust - the human relations of democratic government.

[Anne Sa'adah] provides us with a thought-provoking survey of political and cultural controversies about the former German Democratic Republic since unification.

Anne Sa'adah is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.

• Introduction - political reconciliation and democratization; the disappointments of democratization; no trust, no democracy -the citizens' movements and the reconciliation debate, 1989-90; after the lie - democratic legitimacy without community?; successor justice - the appeal to common sense and the redefinition of justice; compromising compromises - the Stolpe case; the crisis of democracy, the PDS and party politics in unified Germany; conclusion - identity and trust - the human relations of democratic government.

[Anne Sa'adah] provides us with a thought-provoking survey of political and cultural controversies about the former German Democratic Republic since unification.

Anne Sa'adah is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.

• Introduction - political reconciliation and democratization; the disappointments of democratization; no trust, no democracy -the citizens' movements and the reconciliation debate, 1989-90; after the lie - democratic legitimacy without community?; successor justice - the appeal to common sense and the redefinition of justice; compromising compromises - the Stolpe case; the crisis of democracy, the PDS and party politics in unified Germany; conclusion - identity and trust - the human relations of democratic government.

[Anne Sa'adah] provides us with a thought-provoking survey of political and cultural controversies about the former German Democratic Republic since unification.