Download or read book Germany After the 2013 Elections written by Gabriele D'Ottavio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German election of 2013 has important ramifications for the whole of Europe. Germany After the 2013 Elections: Breaking the Mould of Post-Unification Politics? provides a comprehensive analysis of this election and its wider implications for post-unification German politics. International specialists on German and EU politics examine the domestic and international context of the election and reflect on its possible consequences. In the first part of the volume, a number of contributors analyse the policy environment in which the election took place while the second part deals with voters, parties and leaders’ strategies in the run-up to, and the aftermath, of the 2013 election.
Download or read book Parties and Voters at the 2013 German Federal Election written by Robert Rohrschneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2013 federal election in Germany took place amidst considerable uncertainty over the EU’s economic crisis. Financial rescue packages for several countries required the provision of huge sums. Some EU-members barely avoided the economic abyss. Germany, however, was spared much of the hardship as her economy produced record-levels of employment, exports boomed, and German state coffers began to see a budget surplus. Against this backdrop, this book examines the choices offered to voters by parties, and publics’ decision calculus. How did Germany’s voter evaluate economic conditions and the Euro crisis? For example, is there a demand for a new party representing the rising EU-skeptical sentiments? How did long-term developments such as the weakening party-voter ties affect the election outcome? What programs did parties offer to voters in the election? The book brings together several leading experts of German and European politics to address these questions. The chapters were originally published as a special issue in German Politics.
Download or read book Twilight of the Merkel Era written by Eric Langenbacher and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe—notably in Britain and the USA—it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable. And it did through the re-election of Angela Merkel as chancellor, now in her fourth term. Just under the surface, however, instability is mounting—exemplified by the entry of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the largest opposition party, the decline of the Social Democrats, the ever-restive Bavarians, and the growing factionalism within the Christian Democratic Union as the Merkel era comes to an end. Paying special attention to the rise of the AfD, this volume delves into the campaign, leading political figures, the structure of the electorate, the state of the parties, the media environment, coalition negotiations, and policy impacts.
Download or read book Party Transformations in European Democracies written by André Krouwel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties regularly change and adapt in response to ever-changing circumstances. Until now these changes have frequently prompted both scholars and the media to suggest a whole new type of political party, and over time the number of models and types has proliferated to the point of confusion, contradiction, and a loss of explanatory power. In this sophisticated yet accessible study, André Krouwel rejects this mélange of models as inadequate. He utilizes a wide range of data sources to analyze the ideological, organizational, and electoral change undergone by more than one hundred European parties in fifteen different countries, from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, between 1945 and 2010. The result is one of the most comprehensive empirically grounded studies to date of the genesis, development, and transformation of political parties in advanced democratic states.
Download or read book The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics written by Dan Hough and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in either English or German to analyse the development of Germany's newest political party, the Left Party. It compares and contrasts the party's development with that of Germany's most well-known outsider party - the Greens. It also analyses the party's performance in office in two eastern German Länder.
Download or read book Parties and Elections in Germany written by Wolfram Nordsieck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Parties and Elections in Germany" is a comprehensive reference guide to the federal and state elections and federal and state governments in Germany since 1918, the elections to the European Parliament and to all significant present and past political parties. Listed are more than 290 parties. The guide includes basic data of these parties (founding years, political orientations, affiliations to European political parties, European Parliament groups and political internationals) and a chronological summary of their history (predecessors, name changes, mergers and splits).
Download or read book Regional and National Elections in Western Europe written by R. Dandoy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European countries from 1945-2011. The result of rigorous and in-depth country studies, this book challenges the popular second-order model and presents an innovative framework to study regional voting patterns.
Download or read book Liberal Parties in Europe written by Emilie van Haute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how liberal parties have evolved over time as a party family, in a comparative perspective. Through a discussion of the applicability of the concept of party family to liberal parties, it gives a better picture of the development, challenges, and opportunities for liberal parties in Europe. The history of liberal parties in Europe is peculiar and the origins of the liberal family are not clearly defined. Liberal parties are still quite heterogeneous given the various meanings embraced in the idea of liberalism, including economic liberalism, cultural liberalism, progressivism, social-liberalism. Bringing together the best specialists engaged in the study of liberal parties, and with a two-levels perspective (comparative and case study), this book renews and expands our knowledge on the liberal party family in Europe. Four major themes are developed, linked to the four approaches of the concept of party family: electoral performances, participation to power, ideology and political program, and party organization. These themes are systematically developed in case studies, and in comparative chapters. Primarily aimed at scholars and students in comparative politics, this book should especially appeal to scholars in the fields of political parties and party systems, representation and elections, voting behavior, and public opinion.
Download or read book Parties and Elections in Germany and Austria written by Wolfram Nordsieck and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARTIES AND ELECTIONS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA is a comprehensive reference guide to the federal parliamentary elections and federal governments in Germany and Austria since 1918, the state elections and state governments since 1945, the elections to the European Parliament and to all major and several minor political parties. The guide includes basic data of these parties (founding years, political orientations, affiliations to political parties at European level, European Parliament groups and political internationals) and a chronological summary of their history (predecessors, name changes, mergers and splits).
Download or read book Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections written by Alberto Simpser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation is not only a tool used to gain votes, but also a means of transmitting or distorting information. This manipulation conveys an image of strength, shaping the behavior of citizens, bureaucrats, politicians, parties, unions and businesspeople to the benefit of the manipulators, increasing the scope for the manipulators to pursue their goals while in government and mitigating future challenges to their hold on power. Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections provides a general theory about what drives electoral manipulation and empirically documents global patterns of manipulation.
Download or read book Proportional Representation written by Friedrich Pukelsheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an in-depth study of the translation of vote counts into seat numbers in proportional representation systems – an approach guided by practical needs. It also provides plenty of empirical instances illustrating the results. It analyzes in detail the 2014 elections to the European Parliament in the 28 member states, as well as the 2009 and 2013 elections to the German Bundestag. This second edition is a complete revision and expanded version of the first edition published in 2014, and many empirical election results that serve as examples have been updated. Further, a final chapter has been added assembling biographical sketches and authoritative quotes from individuals who pioneered the development of apportionment methodology. The mathematical exposition and the interrelations with political science and constitutional jurisprudence make this an apt resource for interdisciplinary courses and seminars on electoral systems and apportionment methods.
Download or read book Between Left and Right written by Eric Langenbacher and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany remains a leader in Europe, as demonstrated by its influential role in the on-going policy challenges in response to the post 2008 financial and economic crises. Rarely does the composition of a national government matter as much as Germany’s did following the 2009 Bundestag election. This volume, which brings together established and up-and coming academics from both sides of the Atlantic, delves into the dynamics and consequences surrounding this fateful election: How successful was Chancellor Angela Merkel’s leadership of the Grand Coalition and what does her new partnership with the Free Democrats auger? In the face economic crisis, why did German voters empower a center-right market-liberal coalition? Why did the SPD, one of the oldest and most distinguished parties in the world self-destruct and what are the chances that it will recover? The chapters go beyond the contemporary situation and provide deeper analyses of the long-term decline of the catchall parties, structural changes in the party system, electoral behavior, the evolution of perceptions of gender in campaigns, and the use of new social media in German politics.
Download or read book Class Politics and the Radical Right written by Jens Rydgren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which brings together the leading scholars within this field, makes a unique contribution by focusing on the relationship between class politics and the radical right
Download or read book The Kremlin s Trojan Horses written by Alina Polyakova and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Campaigning Elections and the Internet written by Darren Lilleker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth, comparative analysis of how interactive Web 2.0 online tools, including weblogs, social networking sites and file-sharing sites, are utilised by candidates and parties during three recent election campaigns in France, Belgium, the US and the UK.
Download or read book Party System Change the European Crisis and the State of Democracy written by Marco Lisi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Party systems are crucial elements for the functioning of political systems and representative democracies. With several European countries experiencing significant changes recently, it is necessary to update our knowledge. This volume analyses party system changes in Europe in the 21st century by considering several dimensions such as interparty competition, the cleavage structure, electoral volatility and the emergence of new actors. The book describes the principal continuities and changes in party systems in Europe; analyzes the main explanations for these trends; and assesses the impact of the crisis on the patterns observed. By considering a wide range of Western and Eastern European countries, and focusing on the ‘parameters’ of party system change, this book seeks to fill an important gap in the literature through a comparative analysis of the evolution of party systems in Europe over the last decades. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties, party systems and politics, electoral behavior as well as more broadly to European politics, comparative politics. political representation and the quality of democracies.
Download or read book The Alternative for Germany AfD Analysis of a new right wing populism written by Juan Francisco Alvarez Moreno and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 1,7, Malmö University, language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is to examine how the political communication of the recently created German political party "Alternative for Germany" (Alternative für Deutschland) can be understood as a form of right-wing populist discourse. The analysis seeks to gain knowledge in how their discourses challenge the established ones in Germany. The discourses of the AfD are then examined in their wider context in a discussion about their social implications in Germany and Europe. The study design is devised following Norman Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis, which acts both as an analytical and methodological framework. Under a social constructionist paradigm, the corpus of selected political messages is analysed using a methodological toolbox that is based on Fairclough’s work and looks after three levels of analysis: text, discursive practice and sociocultural practice. This framework is enhanced with the findings and theoretical considerations of Ruth Wodak’s work on right-wing populist discourses. While the first two levels follow a constricted methodological guideline in order to examine how the AfD discourses can be understood as right wing-populism and how they challenge established discourses, the last level opens a discussion about how they draw upon and reproduce broader ideological-discursive formations and social practices.
