Germany has undergone more change in the past two years than it has experienced in decades. In the fall of 2021, the Social Democratic Party unexpectedly surged to first place in the Bundestag elections, going on to lead a coalition of SPD, Greens, and Free Democrats that promised to “dare more progress” domestically. Then just two months after the new government was installed, Russia invaded Ukraine. The contributions in this volume investigate the altered state of German politics and predict the trajectory of Europe’s leading power in the transformed geopolitical environment.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: A Zeitenwende Indeed
Eric Langenbacher
Chapter 1. From the Eternal Grand Coalition to the Traffic Light Alliance: The Development of the German Party System Before and After the 2021 Federal Election
Frank Decker and Philipp Adorf
Chapter 2. Pathways to the Chancellorship: The Making of Chancellor Scholz in Perspective
Ludger Helms
Chapter 3. Continuing Formalization of Coalition Formation with a New “Sound:” Negotiating the Coalition Contract after the 2021 Bundestag Election
Sven T. Siefken
Chapter 4. The Quest for Gender Parity: Angela Merkel and the Diversification of Electoral Politics in Germany
Joyce Marie Mushaben
Chapter 5. What do (Parties Think) Women and LGBTI Citizens Want? Party Platforms, Gender, and Sexuality in the 2021 German National Election
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Chapter 6. KanzlerwahlvereinNo More? Failed Internal Coalition-making and the CDU/CSU’s 2021 Campaign
Matthias Dilling
Chapter 7. From Zero to Hero: The Rise of Olaf Scholz and the SPD
Ed Turner, Davide Vampa, and Matthias Scantamburlo
Chapter 8. Not a Single Digit Party Anymore: The Central Role of Alliance 90/The Greens in a Changed Party System
Niko Switek
Chapter 9. Catalysts for Change: Small Parties in the 2021 Bundestag Election
David Patton
Chapter 10. The Party Without Qualities? Explaining the Left Party’s Electoral Disaster in the 2021 German Federal Election
Jonathan Olsen and Michael A. Hansen
Chapter 11. Setting a Trend? Support for the Greens and the FDP in the 2021 Bundestag Election
Andreas Wüst
Chapter 12. A Tale of Two Electorates? The 2021 Federal Election and the Alternative for Germany (Af D) Voter in East and West
Michael A. Hansen and Jonathan Olsen
Chapter 13. The Pandemic Factor: The Covid-19 Crisis in the Alternative for Germany’s 2021 Federal Election Campaign
Lars Rensmann and Thijs de Zee
Chapter 14. The Shifting Role of Climate Change in the 2021 Bundestag Election
Carol Hager
Chapter 15. Reordering German Liberalism: Reexamining the Social Market Economy in the 2021 Bundestag Election
Mark Vail
Chapter 16. The Enduring Effect of Immigration Attitudes on Vote Choice: Evidence from the 2021 German Federal Election
Hannah M. Alarian
Chapter 17. The Ampel Coalition’s Foreign Policy Challenges
Jack Janes
Chapter 18. China and Russia Policy in the Election and Beyond
Stephen F. Szabo
Chapter 19. Inertia and Reactiveness in Germany’s Russia Policy: From the 2021 Federal Elections to the Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Jonas J. Driedger
Over de auteur
Eric Langenbacher is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Honors Program in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Since July 2019, he is also a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Society, Culture and Politics Program at the American-German Institute in Washington, DC. Recent publications include The German Polity, 12th ed. (Lanham, 2021), Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election (Berghahn Books, 2019) and Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books, 2015). He is also Managing Editor of German Politics and Society, which is housed in Georgetown’s BMW Center for German and European Studies.
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