The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics

Hough, Dan; Koß, Michael; Olsen, Jonathon

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“…6 Growing inequality has increased voters' receptiveness to issues of economic justice and distribution, most recently shown when Die Linke won nearly 12 per cent of the vote in the 2009 Bundestag election, while support for the Support for the German Left 689 SPD crumbled to a post-war low of 23 per cent of the party-list vote. Even as it has helped to bolster Die Linke's political support, voters' concern with social and economic policy has reinforced the party's organisational and programmatic modernisation (Hough et al 2007).…”

Section: Corporatism the Politics Of Inequality And The German Leftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Insecurity, the Social Market Economy, and Support for the German Left

Bowyer¹,

Vail²

2011

West European Politics

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Section: Corporatism the Politics Of Inequality And The German Leftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Insecurity, the Social Market Economy, and Support for the German Left

Bowyer¹,

Vail²

2011

West European Politics

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“…Second, it encouraged the emergence and consolidation of a more potent competitor on the SPD's left flank. The Left Party works explicitly to mobilize those individuals within the electorate who might previously have considered themselves natural SPD voters but felt disenfranchised by Schröder's Hartz IV supply-side reforms (Hough et al, 2007;Olsen, 2007). Thus, over the period from 2005, the Left Party enjoyed a mean poll rating of just over 9 percent.…”

Section: The Strategic Environment In 2009mentioning

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The paradoxical effects of decline

Lees

2011

Party Politics

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This article examines the impact of party system change in Germany on the role, status and power of the two catch-all parties (CDU/CSU and SPD) in the light of the 2009 federal election. It argues that party system change has had a paradoxical impact. On the one hand, the decline in the overall catch-all vote undermines the two parties' integrative function. On the other, the presence of three small parties (FDP, Greens, Left Party) means that, with the possible exception of the Greens, no single small party has the potential to be 'kingmaker' and, because of their relative positions in ideological space, neither can they act in concert to extract concessions from the two catch-all parties. Thus, despite the impressive performance of the FDP in the 2009 federal election and the electoral meltdown suffered by the SPD, in office-seeking terms the catch-all parties are currently less vulnerable to small party threats of defection to alternative coalitions.

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“…Die prinzipiellen Befürworter bei den sozialdemokraten setzen daher auf eine kurzfristige Abgrenzung bei mittelfristiger Offenhaltung einer bedingten Koalitionsoption (Niedermayer 2008, s. 27). zentral ist auf jeden Fall die Entwicklung der Linkspartei, wobei hier die Parallelen zu den Grü-nen interessant sind (Hough et al 2007): Beide Parteien wurden anfangs von etablierten Politikern, Medien und großen teilen der Bevölkerung als extremistische Außenseiter betrachtet, die weder politik-noch koalitionsfähig seien. Über verschiedene Modelle der Kooperation und tolerierung wurden beide Parteien auf Länderebene zu möglichen Koalitionspartnern der SPD.…”

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Neue Regierungsbündnisse braucht das Land!

Switek

2010

Z Politikberat

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Zusammenfassung: Mit der Herausbildung eines fünfparteiensystems in Deutschland wird es für die Parteien schwieriger, Regierungsmehrheiten zu erreichen. Auch wenn die Bundestagswahl 2009 zu einer schwarz-gelben Koalition führte, sind längerfristig neue Konstellationen gefordert -doch welche kommen hier in frage? Der Autor argumentiert in diesem Beitrag, dass bei der Analyse der Koalitionsbildung die strategische Dimension häufig unterschätzt wird. Aus der Koalitionsforschung werden jene Faktoren, welche die Bildung von Koalitionen beeinflussen, herausgearbeitet und mit der strategischen Bewertung durch die Parteispitze in einem Modell verbunden. Durch die einbeziehung und Auffächerung der strategischen Dimension ergibt sich ein zugang für die Beratung von Parteien hinsichtlich einer Koalitionsentscheidung. Das Modell wird abschließend an -auf Bundesebene -neuen Koalitionsformaten durchgespielt.Abstract: With a fifth party having emerged in the German party system, established coalition models are less likely to gain a majority. even though the last federal election led to a two party government, there is an obvious need for new coalition models in the long term. this paper argues that in analyzing coalition formation processes the strategic dimension needs to be emphasized. A framework is presented which includes lessons from coalition research as well as strategical and practical considerations of party leaders, allowing a new approach to coalition building advisory. In a last step the framework is tested for the German federal level using new coalition models.

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The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics

Cited by 50 publications

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Economic Insecurity, the Social Market Economy, and Support for the German Left

Economic Insecurity, the Social Market Economy, and Support for the German Left

The paradoxical effects of decline

Neue Regierungsbündnisse braucht das Land!

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