Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0063249

Zusammenfassung

In most Western societies the 1960s and 70s were a period of rapid change. Existing accounts of these transformative decades focus on social movements and protests; they cite a profound change in social and cultural norms and values; or they point to structural changes in the economic sector. The state, however, is rarely the focal point of historical inquiries. Therefore, the project analyzes how state actors diagnosed and tried to regulate societal change and how this in turn affected the further development of the state's institutional and organizational structure, the configuration...