Eine Regierungsbilanz der schwarz-gelben Koalition 2009 – 2013: Erklärungsarmer Pragmatismus

Kallinich, Daniela; Schulz, F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-02915-9_19

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“…In the months leading up to polling day approval, ratings hovered around 40%–43% and eventually resulted in 41.5% (Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, 2013), which vindicates the choice of electoral messages that heavily centred on the chancellor’s solid record and her apparently confident steering of a growing economy (Clemens, 2018). For Kallnich and Schulz (2015), the 2013 result testifies to the strongest selling point Merkel’s team kept emphasising, which her adversaries could not rival: Experience, level-headedness, and competence.…”

Section: Assessing Merkel’s Chancellorship I: a Winning Electoral mentioning

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Exploring the strategy of government: A statecraft assessment of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship from 2005 to 2017

Schnee

2019

Politics

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As chancellor Angela Merkel is on course to tie with Helmut Kohl as the longest serving democratically elected German head of government, it is time to attempt an initial assessment of the first 12 years of her chancellorship from 2005 to 2017 which left its marks both on German politics and European affairs. Bulpitt’s statecraft model is applied to evaluate the chancellor’s performance and to judge both achievements and shortcomings of Merkel’s incumbency. The theoretical approach chosen provides a scaffolding to direct the research which casts particular attention on four descriptive categories that help condition judgements of a leader’s success and failure and take into consideration attitude and behaviour of elites within the system whose actions and degree of allegiance may have advanced or constrained Merkel’s leadership. The findings suggest a mixed record that portrays Merkel as an efficient operator whose clout hinged on a firm grip on the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) apparatus and effective management of the parliamentary party. Yet even at the apex of her power, Merkel did not achieve or seek argument hegemony in the public discourse.

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Section: Assessing Merkel’s Chancellorship I: a Winning Electoral mentioning

confidence: 99%