Angela Merkel's Path to Power: The Role of Internal Party Dynamics and Leadership

Wiliarty, Sarah Elise

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“…As a result, works on top executive leaders have tended to focus on women, but the reason why the ways in which political careers may be gendered cannot be fully grasped. Most works are single-case studies (see Clemens 2006;King 2002;Wiliarty 2008), and the few studies using a comparative approach are mainly descriptive and have overlooked the selection stage of the vertical ladder of political recruitment (Jalalzai 2004(Jalalzai , 2008; but see Reyes-Housholder & Thomas 2018).…”

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The gender politics of executive candidate selection and reselection

Verge

Astudillo

2018

European J Political Res

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This research provides new theoretical and empirical insights into the gender politics of the springboards to chief executive office. The extremely masculinised composition of the relatively few top national executive positions has posed a serious impediment to empirically assessing the conditions that may facilitate women's under‐representation and men's over‐representation. To overcome this constraint, this study looks at the top regional executive office across four West European countries that present a multilevel state structure – namely Austria, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Using two original datasets, the article examines the ways in which the selection and reselection of regional prime ministerial candidates is shaped by individual, organisational and institutional factors that produce heterogeneous experiences and career opportunities across sex. The results show that women have not shattered the glass ceiling at the regional level and pinpoint the fact that they are held to higher standards, benefit less from the political resources they possess and are more dependent on the decision environment in which parties select executive candidates. The conclusion is that the rules of the game guiding selection and reselection processes are strongly biased towards men.

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The gender politics of executive candidate selection and reselection

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Astudillo

2018

European J Political Res

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“…Merkel is seen as the consummate party manager who is sensitive to conflicting internal interests, aware of majorities and adroit in building alliances (Wiliarty, 2008). These acquired leadership skills allowed Merkel to marginalise conservative opponents and invoke the voices of the CDU’s social wing in order to poach traditional Social Democratic themes – a strategy she extended beyond the end of the grand coalition and into her subsequent government by the side of the FDP.…”

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“…The debate is fuelled by a range of academic studies that zoom in on particular aspects of her tenure. Her CDU leadership and repositioning of the party has been explored by Wiliarty (2008Wiliarty ( , 2013, Clemens (2007Clemens ( , 2009Clemens ( , 2010, Green (2013), Maier (2013), and Turner et al (2013); foreign policy performance by Mushaben (2009), Gueort (2013), Janes (2014), Wood (2016), and Wendler (2017); her domestic record by Mushaben (2016); the constitutional role of the chancellor and challenges of coalition government by Kropp (2010), Jalalzai (2011), Olsen (2011), and Clemens (2011); the refugee crisis by Mushaben (2017) and Dostal (2017); and her responses to the Eurozone crisis is addressed in a paper by Hertner and Miskimmon (2015). From this brief review, it will appear that the groundwork has been done and it is time to make sense of the current kaleidoscope of perspectives and weave a more coherent narrative of Angela Merkel's performance in office.…”

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Exploring the strategy of government: A statecraft assessment of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship from 2005 to 2017

Schnee

2019

Politics

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As chancellor Angela Merkel is on course to tie with Helmut Kohl as the longest serving democratically elected German head of government, it is time to attempt an initial assessment of the first 12 years of her chancellorship from 2005 to 2017 which left its marks both on German politics and European affairs. Bulpitt’s statecraft model is applied to evaluate the chancellor’s performance and to judge both achievements and shortcomings of Merkel’s incumbency. The theoretical approach chosen provides a scaffolding to direct the research which casts particular attention on four descriptive categories that help condition judgements of a leader’s success and failure and take into consideration attitude and behaviour of elites within the system whose actions and degree of allegiance may have advanced or constrained Merkel’s leadership. The findings suggest a mixed record that portrays Merkel as an efficient operator whose clout hinged on a firm grip on the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) apparatus and effective management of the parliamentary party. Yet even at the apex of her power, Merkel did not achieve or seek argument hegemony in the public discourse.

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“…Instead, part of the reason she has held on to her position as chancellor for so long is that Merkel is a master at balancing different factions, both within the CDU and the wider governmental coalitions, while not truly affiliating with any of them (Clemens 2011;Wiliarty 2008). While the economic downturn and political instability caused by the euro crisis has dealt a serious blow to the output legitimacy of all European elected and technocratic leaders, domestically, Merkel's leadership has undoubtedly been effective.…”

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The paradoxes of legitimate EU leadership. An analysis of the multi-level leadership of Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras during the euro crisis

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2017

Journal of European Integration

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Angela Merkel's Path to Power: The Role of Internal Party Dynamics and Leadership

Cited by 15 publications

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The gender politics of executive candidate selection and reselection

The gender politics of executive candidate selection and reselection

Exploring the strategy of government: A statecraft assessment of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship from 2005 to 2017

The paradoxes of legitimate EU leadership. An analysis of the multi-level leadership of Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras during the euro crisis

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