The Merkel Republic : : an appraisal / / edited by Eric Langenbacher.

"Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German and European politics for almost a decade. Her stellar reputation, sound political and economic management, and popularity inside of Germany resulted in one of the most decisive electoral victories for her conservative parties in postwar Germany--t...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Merkel's Nachsommermarchen? / Eric Langenbacher, Department of Government, Georgetown University
  • Follow-up to the grand coalition : the German party system before and after the 2013 federal election / Frank Decker, Institut fur Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie, Universitat Bonn
  • Chancellor hegemony : party politics and the Bundestag party system after the 2013 federal election / Charles Lees, Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies, University of Bath
  • Past imperfect, future tense : the SPD before and after the 2013 federal election / Jonathan Olsen, History and Government, Texas Woman's University
  • Small parties and the 2013 Bundestag election : end of the upward trend? / David F. Patton, Government and International Relations, Connecticut College
  • Many new faces, but nothing new? : the sociodemographic and career profiles of German Bundestag members in the eighteenth legislative period / Melanie Kintz, English, Chemnitz University of Technology
  • Closing the gap : gender and constituency candidate nomination in the 2013 Bundestag election / Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, Political Science, University of Miami
  • Immigration into politics : immigrant-origin candidates and their success in the 2013 Bundestag election / Andreas M. Wust, Mannheimer Zentrum fur Europaische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim
  • The reluctant cosmopolitanization of European party politics : the case of Germany / Lars Rensmann, Political Science, John Cabot University
  • European integration and party competition in German federal elections / Steven Weldon, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, and Hermann Schmitt, Social Sciences, University of Manchester and Mannheimer Zentrum fur Europeische Sozialforischung, Universitat Mannheim
  • The politics of the Eurozone crisis : two puzzles behind the German consensus / Wade Jacoby, Political Science, Brigham Young University
  • Merkel 3.0 : German foreign policy in the aftermath of the 2013 Bundestag election / Jackson Janes, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
  • Epilogue: Concluding thoughts on the 2013 Bundestag election / Jeffrey Anderson, German and European Studies/Government, Georgetown University.