| Contents |
Introduction: Merkel's Nachsommermärchen? / 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 für Politische Wissenschaft und Soziologie, Universität 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. Wüst, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische 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 für Europeische Sozialforischung, Universität 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. |
| Scope and content |
"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--the country can rightfully be deemed the Merkel Republic. Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties, and the prospects for the SPD, the new coalition partner, as well as more general structural trends like the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics"--Provided by publisher. |
