Launching the Grand Coalition

Eric Langenbacher is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Special Programs in the Department of Government, Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on comparative politics and political culture.

• Introduction: The Drama of 2005 and the Future of German PolitiicsEric LangenbacherChapter 1. The Tipping Point: The 2005 Election and the Deconsolidation of the German Party System?David ConradtChapter 2. The Extraordinary Bundestag Election of 2005: The Interplay of Long-term Trends and Short-term FactorsHermann Schmitt and Andreas M. WüstChapter 3. The Grand Coalition: Precedents and ProspectsLudger HelmsChapter 4. From High Hopes to On-going Defeat: The New Extreme Right's Political Mobilization and its National Electoral Failure in GermanyLars RensmannChapter 5. Angela Merkel: What Does it Mean to Run as a Woman?Myra Marx-FerreeChapter 6. Merkel's EU Policy: "Kohl's Mädchen" or Interest-driven Politics?Dorothee HeisenbergChapter 7. The Change in Government and Transatlantic RelationsJackson JanesChapter 8. Honecker's Revenge: The Enduring Legacy of German Unification in the 2005 ElectionJeffrey Kopstein and Daniel ZiblattChapter 9. From the Outside In: Angela Merkel and the CDUClay ClementsNotes on ContributorsIndex