文档介绍：Germany: Representation and
Participation
I. German Political Parties
A. Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU)
B. Social Democrats (SPD)
C. Free Democrats (FDP)
D. Greens (Die Grünen)
E. The Left Part (WASG and PDS)
II. German Political Culture
A. Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU)
Two parties:
Christian Democratic
Union (most of country)
Christian Social Union
(Bavaria)
Center-Right
‘Social market’ economy
Pragmatic
Christian Democrat Leaders
Angela Merkel
Chancellor
Since 9/05
Helmut Kohl Edmund Stoiber
Chancellor 1982-98 CSU Leader and
2002 Chancellor
Candidate
The 2005 German Election
B. Social Democrats (SPD)
Marxism and the ‘30% ghetto’
Bad Godesberg Conference
(1959)
Willi Brandt and ‘Ostpolitik’
Helmut Schmidt
Eclipsed by Kohl
Gerhard Schröder (the
“Cashmere Chancellor”)
Social Democrat Leaders
Chancellor Gerhard
Schröder (1998-present)
Chancellor Willi Chancellor Helmut
Brandt (1969-74) Schmidt (1974-82)
C. Free Democrats (FDP or Liberals)
Clear third party (never more than 13% of
the vote nationally) but…
‘Kingmaker’ in German system
Free market, libertarian party FDP Leader
Guido Westerwelle
Moderating influence
within coalitions
Good showing in 2005 (%)
D. The Greens (Bündis 90/Die Grünen)
Formally Alliance 90/The Greens
Fundis and Realos
Environmentalism, post-material
values, social justice
Positions in Schröder government
Joshcka
Joschka Fischer (Foreign Minister) Fisher
Jorgen Trittin (Environment)
Nuclear Power
E. Left Party (Die Linke) Party
Combination of the recently formed Labor and
Social Justice Party (WASG) and Party of
Democratic Socialism (PDS)
PDS is the essor to East German Socialist
Unity (Communist) Party (Gregor Gysi)
WASG is former far left SPD members under
Oskar Lafontaine
Attracts disaffected SPD/Green voters in West;
those disillusioned with reunification in East