Gender as a Modernising Force in the German CDU

Wiliarty, Sarah Elise

doi:10.1080/09644008.2013.787596

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“…The document amounted to a formalisation of the party’s ongoing repositioning and was certainly helped by the earlier retirement of Merkel’s more influential conservative adversaries in particular Merz and Roland Koch, the CDU’s former first minister of Hesse (McGroarty, 2010; Neumann, 2008). Merkel’s alleged complete command over her party in the period investigated here is mirrored in illustrations of the CDU as ‘Kanzlerwahlverein’, that is, a party devoid of an autonomous political will and needed only to run election campaigns, generate electoral support, and tamely confirm and acclaim the chancellor (Fischer and Wittrock, 2010; Wiliarty, 2013). Yet this perspective of a party that operates merely at the chancellor’s behest fails to take into account inbuilt checks and balances in what is a federalist structure, where regional state parliaments and their respective party caucuses, provincial chieftains with influential positions in state and federal cabinet or on the frontbench of parliament, constitute centres of power in their own right that can constrain the chancellor’s room to manoeuver.…”

Section: Assessing Merkel’s Chancellorship Iii: Party Managementmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…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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confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Assessing Merkel’s Chancellorship Iii: Party Managementmentioning

confidence: 95%