DDR-Regimewandel, Bürgerorientierungen und die Entwicklung des gesamtdeutschen Parteiensystems

Niedermayer, Oskar; Stöss, Richard

doi:10.1007/978-3-663-10996-9_1

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“…Arguably, the merger with the post-Communist LDPD and NDPD has a lasting effect here, but a bottom effect is also clearly visible. The Christian Democrats, who also found allies among the GDR bloc parties, are organizationally clearly weaker in the east than in the western part of Germany (Niedermayer and Stöss, 1994). Unsurprisingly, the Left is the only exception because it has inherited a true mass organization from the Communist SED.…”

Section: Party Membershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a new party system

Poguntke

2012

Party Politics

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The results of the 2009 Bundestag election and subsequent Land elections suggest that the German party system is changing fundamentally. A few facts suffice to corroborate this statement: Volatility has now reached levels that were last recorded in the 1950s; turnout in national elections has reached an all-time low; the two large parties have had unprecedentedly poor results in the Bundestag elections while all three smaller parties reached more than 10 percent. The article shows that German catch-all parties are about to lose their hold on the electorate and, as a result, can no longer rely on being the senior parties of government. The article analyses these changes systematically using a range of quantitative indicators covering the entire post-war period. It shows a seminal erosion of the forces which have stabilized the German party system in earlier decades and discusses the repercussions for the functioning of German party democracy.

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Section: Party Membershipmentioning

confidence: 99%