This volume seeks to identify some of the central challenges which constitutional policy faces and analyses how, and with what degree of success, they are being met.

Chapter 1 The Basic Law after Unification: Continued Centrality or Declining Force?, KLAUS H. GOETZ, PETER J. CULLEN; Chapter 2 The Constitution and the Maastricht Treaty: Between Co-operation and Conflict, GEORG RESS; Chapter 3 To be Continued: The Constitutional Reform Commissions from a Länder Perspective, UWE LEONARDY; Chapter 4 A Forum of Constitutional Deliberation? A Critical Analysis of the Joint Constitutional Commission, ARTHUR BENZ; Chapter 5 The Constitutionalisation Process of the New Länder: A Source of Inspiration for the Basic Law?, CHRISTIAN STARCK; Chapter 6 The Federal Constitutional Court: Facing up to the Strains of Law and Politics in the New Germany, NEVIL JOHNSON; Chapter 7 The Frontiers of Constitutional Law: Identity Politics in Reunified Germany, NEIL WALKER; Chapter 8 Concluding Theses on Constitutional Policy in Unified Germany, PETER J. CULLEN, KLAUS H. GOETZ;