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The red-green coalition in Germany : politics, personalities and power

Title: The red-green coalition in Germany : politics, personalities and power / Charles Lees.
Author: Lees, Charles.
Publication: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2000.

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157 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This text provides a perspective on the politics and personalities of post-war Germany's most unstable - and apparently unpredictable - national government to date. The author uses previously unpublished research into Red-Green coalitions in the German Lander in order to understand more clearly the nature of the pressures acting upon Germany's first national coalition between the Social Democrats and the Greens. Charles Lees argues that the Red-Green coalition is best understood as part of an ongoing process of political co-operation between two distinct and often antagonistic parties. Grounded and introduced in the context of recent work on coalition theory and public policy analysis, the book examines the trail of political trial and error that has led the two parties from the mutual suspicion of the early 1980s to being partners in national government today. Drawing on the political history of Red-Green coalitions in Germany, the author explains why Chancellor Schroeder's 1998 election triumph provoked such excitement and why his government's subsequent political travails could have been predicted.

Series Statement

Issues in German politics

Uniform Title

Issues in German politics.

Subject

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-153) and index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-153) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Explaining Red-Green coalitions -- 3. The long march through the Lander -- 4. 'Then we take Berlin' -- 5. Niedersachsen and the irresistible rise of Gerhard Schroder -- 6. Party strategy and the 1998 Bundestag elections -- 7. Party programmes, coalition strategy and bargaining -- 8. Red-Green in power -- 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

0719058392
9780719058394
0719058384
9780719058387

OCLC

ocm46570377
46570377
SCSB-1219795

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library