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Toward a New German Federalism?passed in 1969 by the first Grand Coalition that had been in power since 1966. This established the constitutional foundation for Germany’s cooperative federalism, by then quite well developed.. In 2006, the second Grand Coalition overcame the deadlock leading to the failure of the Commission for th

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Multilevel Party Politics during the Grand Coalition every four years and in each of the sixteen states (Länder) every four to five years..As these elections are not necessarily held on the same date, German parties and voters are exposed to an almost permanent political dispute (Schmidt 2007, 212). At the same time, the electoral arenas at national

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A Post-Modern Campaign? many Länder elections—could have been viewed as an evaluation of the Grand Coalition guided by Angela Merkel (CDU), and also as a preview for the upcoming federal election. In this situation, a “permanent campaign” climate could have occurred, along with sharp contrapositions and adversary tones ai

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The Choice for Stabilityt elections, and—we might also include—the head of state . election by the Federal Convention. The peak of this voting bonanza for German citizens was the September 27 Bundestag election. In spite of all these events, or possibly because of them, the campaign leading up to the Bundestag election was

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An Electorate on the Moveht, September 27, it was clear that the victory margin gained by the Christian Democrats, which later formed a coalition government with the Liberals, was larger than expected. Actually, the overall outcome showed two main features. Instead of a close race, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) experien

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The “Grand Coalition State” between Past and Presenthe Weimar Republic and Nazism), on one hand. On the other, by the virtues shown by the Federal Republic of Germany over the last sixty years: the extraordinarily widespread support for democracy shown by the political class and the citizens alike; the achievement of an accomplished democracy of poli

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Conclusionhip. Federal governments comprising Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have not been popular within the German public. They have been avoided in the Federal Republic’s history as much as possible, and, when actually formed, they have been perceived as a temporary arrangement by