Rot-Grün an der Macht

Wolfrum, Edgar

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“…Third way social democracy was a response to a profound sense of social and ideological crisis within social democratic parties faced with both the political challenges posed by neoliberalism and the Left s own tarnished reputation due to perceived excesses and failed policies in the 1970s and 1980s. The two most prominent cases, Gerhard Schröder in Germany and Tony Blair in Britain, returned their parties to power after a sustained period in opposition 18 years for Labour and 16 years for the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) (Coates & Lawler, 2000, p. 26;Wolfrum, 2013). The perception that had developed in the early 1990s was that leaving the political wilderness necessitated some form of break from the past, at least symbolically.…”

Section: The Third Way and Aftermentioning

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Third Way Departures and 21st-Century Social Democracy: Corbyn vs Macron

Brandal¹,

Bratberg²

2021

Comparative Social Research

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In the 1990s, European social democracts coalesced around a set of principles often referred to as the third way characterised by prudent economic governance, a slimmer public sector, productive welfare services and attraction to inward investment. Third way proponents perceived fairness as supporting opportunity rather than redistributing welfare. On the way to the late 2000s, their sense of direction was lost. The final phase, one might argue, ended with the 2008 2009 financial crisis.Henceforth, the challenge for the Left concerned how to define a social democracy with less revenue and limited scope for expanding public services, while reaching out to the so-called left-behinds through better jobs and a renewed sense of common purpose. Jeremy Corbyn and EmmanuelMacron represent two distinctly different attempts at forging a new way forward from the impasse. During Corb n s tenure as a leader (2015 2020), Labour carved out space by moving leftwards on key economic policies while proffering communitarianism as the antidote to globalised capitalism. Across the English Channel, Macron s new party, La République En Marche, sought to generate a new form of politics that had clear similarities with the centrism of third way social democracy, supplemented by an emphasis on social dialogue and enhanced European integration as a strategy for harnessing globalisation. Corbynism and Macronism represent two distinct attempts at centre-left renewal, both personalised yet evolving on the back of mass movements. This article summarises the trajectory of both in terms of ideological content and organisational change and asks what lessons they convey about the future of social democracy in the 21th century.

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Section: The Third Way and Aftermentioning

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Third Way Departures and 21st-Century Social Democracy: Corbyn vs Macron

Brandal¹,

Bratberg²

2021

Comparative Social Research

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“…His emphasis on the split between fundamentalists and pragmatists in Rot-Grün an der Macht enmeshes the Greens' history into the Federal Republic's process of becoming a normal national state. 18 Wolfrum em pha sizes the transformative effects of the changes-from the Harz IV welfare reform to the first Bundeswehr deployment-that the Schröder-Fischer government was compelled to authorize. While these decisions cannot be attributed primarily to the Greens, they made them "a key party in the political landscape of the Federal Republic" because they could "enter coalitions with the Left and the Right."…”

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Renewing Democracy: The Rise of Green Politics in West Germany

Milder

Jarausch²

2015

German Politics and Society

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The September 2013 Bundestag election, which reelected Angela Merkelas chancellor, was a clear defeat for the Green Party. Alliance 90/TheGreens (henceforth the Greens) fared far better than the Free DemocraticParty (FDP), which failed even to score the five percent of the vote requiredfor representation in parliament, but still fell from 10.7 percent to 8.4 percent,losing five of their sixty-eight seats in parliament. Since in March ofthat same year, surveys had shown their support at 17 percent, this disappointingresult forced Jürgen Trittin, the leader of the parliamentary delegationto step down.1 In many ways, this perceived electoral debacle markedthe end of an era. The former Federal Minister of the Envi ron ment, whohad originally joined the party in 1980, told reporters that “a new generation” would have to step forward and lead the party into the 2017campaign. This statement suggested not only that the Greens’ rebelliousfounding impulse was spent, but also that they had become part of theestablishment in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), now requiring areinvigoration of their own. Since the Greens were once expected to be littlemore than a short-lived byproduct of the social conflicts of the 1970s, acloser look at the party’s founding moment at the beginning of the 1980smight shed new light on its current predicament.

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Sociology in Germany After 1990

Moebius

2021

Sociology in Germany

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While far-reaching intellectual influences changed the face of sociology in the 1980s, the development of sociology in the 1990s was first and foremost shaped by a concrete social and political transformation, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Soon after the German reunification, East German sociology almost entirely disappeared and West German sociology extended to the East. The triumph of capitalist society fostered a brief comeback of modernization theory. As the system change came along with severe social problems, theories and research projects focusing on social exclusion, precarious work, and xenophobia moved to the center stage of sociological thinking. The first decade of this century again brought about major changes for society and sociology. Market logic increasingly dominated social and education policy; economic thinking and its involvement in political affairs was on the rise and may have contributed to a marginalization of the influence of sociology on policy making. Characteristic is a further specialization and differentiation, visible through the multiplication of special sociologies. The landscape of sociological theory in Germany continued to change: Earlier, grand theories were dominant, whereas nowadays a trend toward sociological diagnoses of contemporary society can be observed. Overall, contemporary sociology in Germany can be characterized by the following features: (1) historically and philosophically informed sociological theory has always been and still is important, (2) German sociology lacks self-confidence compared to US-American sociology, (3) German sociology has a critical attitude and a strong tradition of public sociology, (4) self-critical debates and internal controversies have always existed and still persist in the field of German sociology. Most recently, this could be observed in the splitting off of the Academy of Sociology from the German Sociological Association and the accompanying debates.

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Rot-Grün an der Macht

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Third Way Departures and 21st-Century Social Democracy: Corbyn vs Macron

Third Way Departures and 21st-Century Social Democracy: Corbyn vs Macron

Renewing Democracy: The Rise of Green Politics in West Germany

Sociology in Germany After 1990

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