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The CDU wins in North Rhine-Westphalia – despite, not because of Friedrich Merz

October 6, 2025

🌈 How a new electoral reform has pushed women out of the Bundestag

March 12, 2025

The 2025 German election: far-right surge and coalition collapse

March 4, 2025

🌈 German parties’ visions for gender economic equity: 2025 federal elections

February 20, 2025

Christian Democracy’s pact with the far right

February 19, 2025
October 10, 2024

Why governments want to learn about citizens’ preferences

Anja Durovic Democratic governments conduct extensive public opinion research, but we know little about how they use it. When and why do they seek to find out what the public thinks? Opening the black box of government polling in Germany, Anja Durovic and Tinette Schnatterer find governments exploit polls in a highly strategic way. Read more
September 26, 2024

Russia-friendly parties are manipulating Europe's traumatic past

Polina Zavershinskaia Russia-friendly parties are exploiting Europe’s war-torn past to justify Russia’s aggression and undermine Europe’s support for Ukraine. Polina Zavershinskaia argues that there is evidence in Germany and Italy that the strategy is working. Read more
September 23, 2024

Elections in eastern Germany: the limits of exclusionism

Thomas Poguntke Thomas Poguntke argues that the shock results of recent elections in two German Länder show how Germany's party system has lost its capacity to integrate radical challengers. As a result, coalition formation now increasingly requires alliances which do not work – and this feeds popular disaffection. Read more
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 Read more
October 10, 2023

🔮 The deep divisions in left-wing populism in Germany

Jan Philipp Thomeczek The Left (Die Linke) in Germany is one of the most established left-wing populist parties in Europe. But it may soon experience a split, Jan Philipp Thomeczek argues, as Sahra Wagenknecht may form her own party. He places this within the German historical context, and within that of populist movements more broadly Read more

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