An Appreciation: Gordon Smith 1927–2009

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes G. Smith, Democracy in Western Germany: Parties and Politics in the Federal Republic (London: Heinemann, 1976). S. Padgett and T. Poguntke (eds), Continuity and Change in German Politics (London: Frank Cass, 2002). G. Smith, ‘Seeking to Understand European Politics’, in H. Daalder (ed.), Comparative European Politics: The Story of a Profession (London and New York: Pinter, 1997), pp.152–61. G. Smith, ‘The German Volkspartei and the Career of the Catchall Concept’, in H. Doering and G. Smith (eds), Party Government and Political Culture in Western Germany (London: MacMillan, 1982). Gordon served in the British occupation forces in Hamburg in the post-war period, where he met his first wife Dorothea, one of the founder members of the Young Socialists under the leadership of Helmut Schmidt in 1945. G. Smith, ‘Does West Germany have an “Efficient Secret”?’, in W.E. Paterson (ed.), The West German Model: Perspectives on a Stable State (London: Frank Cass, 1981). R. Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965). W.E. Paterson and G. Smith (eds), The West German Model: Perspectives on a Stable State (London: Frank Cass, 1981). P.J. Katzenstein, Policy and Politics in Germany: The Growth of a Semisovereign State (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981).