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Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: SPD-Left Party/PDS Coalitions in the Eastern German Länder
This article analyses the development of Left Party/PDS-SPD coalitions in the eastern German Länder. It develops an explanatory framework based on attempts to understand how red-green coalitions came into being in the 1990s. The article concludes that red-red coalitions emerge when four basic criteria are fulfilled: the SPD has few other viable potential coalition options and believes it can gain in strategic terms; the ideological distance between the Left Party/PDS and SPD is small; and the personal relationships between Land-level leaders are good. The paper also argues that the heterogeneity of the Left Party/PDS is likely to ensure that Land-specific solutions to Land-specific coalition dilemmas are very likely to remain of significance in the future.
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German Politics and SocietyISSN
1045-0300Publisher
Berghahn JournalsExternal DOI
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3Volume
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1-24Pages
24.0Department affiliated with
- Politics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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