ABSTRACT
The re-establishment of a liberal democracy in West Germany after 1945 is tine result of forced learning following the unconditional surrender of the totalitarian Nazi system. The imperative pertaining to all designs was to establish the rule of law in a democratic polity and to safeguard in particular governmental stability. The German Weimar constitution had bestowed the president with considerable powers such as dissolution of the Reichstag, appointment of a care-taker government without much difficulty and rule with emergency decrees. With six chancellors in 44 years, politics in Bonn is anything but turbulent; governmental stability as intended by the Constitution has been accomplished. The Berlin republic, although remaining a stable democracy, is confronted with two new overlapping problems—the growing individualization owing to the erosion of traditional social milieus and the decreasing political interest among the generation coming of age.
