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. The contributions from legal scholars and political scientists from Britain and Germany focus on both the substance and the process of constitutional policy. In particular, the papers discuss: internal and external challenges to the Basic Law which may undermine its centrality and directive capacity; the impact of European integration on the German Constitution; the constitutional reform debate concerning inter-governmental relations; the institutional framework for constitutional debate; the constitutionalisation process in the new Lander; the reaction of the Federal Constitutional Court to unification; and the implications of 'the politics of cultural identity' for constitutional law.
