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Not much ado about quite a lot? The German election of September 2013
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posted on 2023-06-15, 14:49 authored by Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Dan HoughDan HoughThe German election of 22 September 2013 saw Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU return triumphantly to office. Merkel’s party won as she is widely admired and, most importantly, she is widely trusted to lead Germany through potentially challenging times. So, all much as was. Yet beneath the surface the tectonic plates of German party politics are shifting. The Social Democrats appear to be stuck in an electoral trough, whilst the number of politically relevant smaller parties is increasing. Although the liberal FDP failed to re-enter parliament for the first time in post-war history, and both the Pirates and Alternative for Germany (AfG) also fell at the final (5%) hurdle, the era of multi-party politics is now well and truly with us. The CDU/CSU and SPD will lead Germany until 2017, but the story of what happens then really is anyone’s guess.
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RepresentationISSN
0034-4893Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1Volume
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129-137Department affiliated with
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2014-03-31First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2014-03-31Usage metrics
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