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The Nonprofit Sector in East Germany: Before and After Unification

  • The paper describes how the non-profit sector in East Germany has passed through several distinct phases in recent years. It shows how the role of the non-profit sector under the system of party dominance and centralised economic and social planning signified a major contradiction of East German society: the artificial under-development of civic society in eastern Europe's most successful economy. During the first phase of the transition period in late 1989, the expression and manifestation of political views was predominant. With the disintegration of the socialist party-state, the needs for social service provision increased. West German organisations have increasingly become the dominant factor in East German non-profit sector affairs. The paper argues that the East German non-profit sector will emerge as a slightly poorer and more secular version of its West German counterpart.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Helmut K. Anheier, Eckhard Priller
Parent Title (English):Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
ISSN:0957-8765
Publisher:Kluwer Academic Publishers
Place of Publisher:Dordrecht
Publication year:1991
First Page:78
Last Page:94
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01398530
Release Date:2015/06/15
Volume:2
Issue:1
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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