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From 'Dream Team' to 'Marriage of Convenience'? : An Introduction
Saalfeld, Thomas; Zohlnhöfer, Reimut (2014): From „Dream Team“ to „Marriage of Convenience“? : An Introduction, in: German politics : Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics, Philadelphia, PA: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Jg. 23, Nr. 4, Special Issue: The Merkel Government and the German Election of 2013, S. 237–250, doi: 10.1080/09644008.2014.982548.
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Title of the Journal:
German politics : Journal of the Association for the Study of German Politics
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0964-4008
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International Association for the Study of German Politics
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Year of publication:
2014
Volume:
23
Issue:
4, Special Issue: The Merkel Government and the German Election of 2013
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English
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This introduction connects some of the main themes covered in this special issue on Chancellor Merkel’s second coalition cabinet, which was formed in October 2009 and ended with the electoral collapse of the FDP in the Bundestag election of September 2013. It starts by setting out an interesting ‘puzzle’: The parties forming the coalition of 2009-2013 (CDU, CSU and FDP) had expressed a strong preference for this coalition in the run-up to the election of 2009. Despite their seeming agreement in many policy areas, the coalition formed in 2009 faced tough negotiations and conflicts between the parties from the beginning. The economic crisis the preceding government faced between 2005 and 2009 and unforeseen events during the course of the CDU/CSU-FDP coalition 2009-2013 (e.g., the Euro crisis and the Fukushima environmental disaster) had altered the policy agenda in important ways and rendered the former ‘Christian-Liberal reform project obsolete.
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Merkel government
Germany
Coalition
CDU/CSU
FDP
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Article
Activation date:
January 15, 2015
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