Description
Book Synopsis Four years after unification, Germany completed what has been called the "super election year": no less than nineteen elections, culminating in the Bundestag vote on October 16, 1994. Four years after unification, the elections of 1994 reveal the state of German Unity and the interplay of new forces in post-Cold War Europe. This book analyzes the elections for specialists as well as for students, placing them in the wider context of political and economic developments in Germany in the 1990s. An appendix with full data on previous Bundestag elections and relevant charts on party developments enhances the value of this volume which students, scholars and the general reader interested in German affairs will find indispensable.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I.
Chapter 1. Campaign Themes of the Election Marathon
D. Conradt
Chapter 2. United Germany in European and Global Perspectives
W. U.Friedrich
Chapter 3. The German Economy and the Elections
I. Collier
Chapter 4. The Media and the New Politics
H. Semetko
Chapter 5. Political Leadership: Candidates and Coalition Politics
G. K. Romoser
PART II.
Chapter 6. Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU)
C. C. Clemens
Chapter 7. Social Democratic Party (SPD)
S. Silvia
Chapter 8. Free Democratic Party (FDP)
C. Søe
Chapter 9. Alliance 90/The Greens
H. G. Betz
Chapter 10. Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)
G. R.Kleinfeld
Chapter 11. Political Attitudes and Behavior in the New Federal States
H. Welsh
Chapter 12. The Right-wing Spectrum
M. Minkenberg
Chapter 13. Who Voted for Whom? Summing up the Super Election Year
W. Gibowski
Chapter 14. Women in the New Politics of Germany
M. Hampton
Appendix: Election Data and Statistics
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
