Articles by Flora Baumgartner

November 14, 2023

Is Germany going authoritarian-left?

Flora Baumgartner

Left-wing German politician Sahra Wagenknecht is launching a new party, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (– for Reason and Justice). With its likely ‘left-authoritarian’ agenda, BSW looks poised to shake up the German system. Flora Baumgartner analyses the party's profile, support base and prospects, placing it in the context of broader European developments

Flora Baumgartner

Research Assistant, Research Group German Politics, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

Flora's research interests centre around party politics, with specific focuses on party families, electoral politics and multidimensional positions, social policy and political economy.

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