Projections show that Germany’s unpopular governing parties sank to feeble results and the far-right Alternative for Germany made gains in Sunday’s vote for the European Parliament, while the mainstream conservative opposition was the country’s strong
This paper tries to describe the attitudinal representativeness of German party memberships in terms of left-right positions using data from two party membership studies from 1998 and 2009. In a second step, the determinants of divergent attitudes of party members from the position of the parties'...
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Of course, the leveling of inequities, such as an increasingly gender-balanced political representation, might also be perceived as a loss of relative status. By these arguments, men might have become more susceptible to backlash radical right parties and the promise of the “good old days” (...
Institute, the conservative union of CDU/CSU has gained one percentage point in approval rating from a week earlier, reaching 31 percent support. The far-right AfD remains in second place with 19 percent support. However, the ruling Social Democratic Party has dropped one point to 16 percent....
A center-left-led alliance of parties on Wednesday announced a deal to form Germany's new government, with surging coronavirus infections posing an immediate crisis for the post-Angela Merkel cabinet to tackle. Two months after the Social Democrats (SPD) beat Merkel's conservative ...
incite the people deeper and deeper into a civil war, and strangle the right of free speech with their dirty hands. With lies, slander, and violence they want to tear down everything that dares to stand in their way. With an insolence exceeding all bounds they act as though they were ma...
A possible explanation is that the spectrum of the German political landscape has significantly shifted to the right, whereas voters still believe that the parties represent the same values as a few decades ago. Taking into account the results of the study, some modifications to the election ...
general secretary, said. none of the three divulged details of their negotiations, which if successful would push merkel's union bloc into opposition after her 16 years of leading europe’s biggest economy. the bloc consists of the chancellor's center-right christian democratic union and ...
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