in depth at the situation of the spd and the new grand coalition. After looking at some of the reasons for the spd ’s poor performance on election day, the author outlines the twisted road the party took to agree to a continuation of the grand
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Politics and Power After the 2017 Bundestag Election
Eric Langenbacher
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’s organizational gambit to wrest local political control from the mainstream parties. This article analyzes the FN’s performance in these elections from the standpoint of political demand and supply. First, it elaborates the social, economic, and partisan
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A Zeitenwende Indeed
Eric Langenbacher
performance in the 2017 election. First was Andrea Nahles, a critic of Schröder's neoliberal policies and a former minister of labor and social affairs. She stepped down in June 2019 after horrible polling and a big loss in the elections for the European
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Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational
Kirkland A. Fulk
the musical focus to include film and performance, but also complicates the picture of music’s relationship to German national identity by investigating how competing conceptions of Germanness also shaped sound itself: “Sound mattered to the formation
The Little Entente of Women as Transnational Ethno-Nationalist Community
Spotlight on Romania
Maria Bucur
performances of ideas and values embraced by the feminist participants. In fact, the history of the network can be described as a performance of feminism, since the immediate direct outcomes of its congresses were primarily forms of speech: nonbinding
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Merkeldämmerung
Eric Langenbacher
, the liberal Free Democratic Party ( fdp ) garnered wide praise for its campaign performance. Its young (thirty-nine) party leader since 2013, Christian Lindner, was an especially exhilarating stump speaker, who seemed to hit a chord with many voters
Diplomats’ Wives and the Foreign Ministry in Late Imperial Russia, in Four Portraits
Marina Soroka
-homes” signaled her husband's professional success and, to a lesser degree, her talent for making friends. The ambassadress also attended a certain number of theatre performances and gala concerts to show polite interest in local cultural life and remain in
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Maria Bucur, Katerina Dalakoura, Krassimira Daskalova, and Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
circles of a particular state. Within this context and pursuing its complex and changing goals, the LEW engaged in recurrent public performances such as conferences, publications, speeches, and exhibitions. Conferences represented its annual central
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Concepts of Emotions in Indian Languages
Margrit Pernau
range from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and they draw on a large variety of sources: from moral philosophy and journal articles, the classical genres of conceptual history, so to speak; to literature and novels; to oral performances in
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Pegida as a European Far-Right Populist Movement
Helga Druxes and Patricia Anne Simpson
to this special issue, Farid Hafez cogently analyzes the failure of Pegida (Austria) as a social movement through an examination of its poor performance through three theoretical lenses: political opportunity structures, ideology, and resource