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Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its...
The reviewer thinks that “the piece is quite long for a research note on a regional election.” I’m afraid s/he is right, as it took me an unduly long time to complete it. But (and this is a very big...
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Snap Election in North Rhine-Westphalia
Much to everybody’s surprise, the minority government in North Rhine-Westphalia collapsed today. Minority governments are a rarity in Germany. The federal constitution, reflecting Germany’s inter-war...
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Law profs: Dissolution of NRW parliament not strictly necessary
Events in North Rhine-Westphalia are quickly becoming the stuff of legends. The end of the red-green minority government on Wednesday has triggered a series of reshuffles that would make Machiavelli...
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Nine New Polls Say Merkel Will Still Be Chancellor in October
The State of Play, Four Weeks Before the Election Last week’s post on Merkel’s very good chances to win a third term created a bit of a stir. This week, I’m back with nine new polls (conducted between...
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German Bundestag Election: Six New Polls, Little Change
The Polls Support for the Major German Parties, Estimates and Predictions (Week 35, 2013) Exactly three weeks before the 18th Bundestag election, it’s time for another look at the polls. This weekend...
View ArticleGermany’s Merkel looks for ‘grand coalition’– Features – Al Jazeera English
Interview with Al Jazeera’s Sam Bollier on the prospects of forming a Grand Coalition (CDU/SPD) after Merkel’s resounding victory. Germany’s Merkel looks for ‘grand coalition’ – Features – Al Jazeera...
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Meanwhile, in a Parallel Universe: The Great SPD Party Conference
This weekend, the SPD held their regular (bi-annual) party conference in Leipzig. In some alternate reality, this conference would have approved of the SPD/Green coalition agreement. Short of a...
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German Coalition Talks: Crunch Time
Coalition Talks: Not Quite as Speedy as Papal Election (and less fun) It’s crunch time in Berlin: A mere two months after the election, both the SPD and Merkel’s CDU have announced that they want to...
View ArticleMeanwhile in Germany: The Great Coalition Treaty Vote
SPD votes on the coalition agreement It’ another slow week for German politics, what with the Mandela Memorial, near-civil war in Thailand, the standoff in Ukraine and the South Korean/Japanese...
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Germany gets their first Minister-President of the Left
On Friday, the state parliament at Erfurt voted in Bodo Ramelow as Minister-President of Thuringia. He is the first member of the Left party to hold such an office, backed by the first ‘red-red-green’...
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Is there potential for anti-refugee left-wing populism in Germany?
In the last couple of weeks, much has been said and written about the turning tide in German public opinion on refugees, the growing rift between Merkel and the CSU, the potential of a back-bench...
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Quick hit on the Super State Election Sunday (TM)
A mere three hours after the event, it’s obviously too early to write something coherent about the three state elections that were held in Germany today. So let’s try it anyway: For the time being,...
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Snap Election in North Rhine-Westphalia
Much to everybody’s surprise, the minority government in North Rhine-Westphalia collapsed today. Minority governments are a rarity in Germany. The federal constitution, reflecting Germany’s inter-war...
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Ten links on Germany’s WTF moment
If you have any interest at all in European politics, you will have noticed by now that the pre-coalition talks in Germany have collapsed on November 19. Because this could mean (amongst other things)...
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Why I still solo blog in 2018. Also, the most popular posts in 2017
Personal blogs are so 1990s, yes? This is not the late 1990s. Hey, it’s not even the early Naughties, and has not been for a while. I have had my own tiny corner of the Internet (then hosted on...
View ArticleInterview with Diário de Notícias on Schulz vs Gabriel
With the upcoming (well, sort of) election and the shenanigans in the SPD, the world is watching Germany. The other day, I was interviewed by a journalist working for Diário de Notícias. Just like the...
View ArticleInterview mit dem Handelsblatt: Thüringen, die AfD und die Zukunft der...
Mit Dietmar Neuerer vom Handelsblatt habe ich ausführlich über die das Ergebnis der Thüringen-Wahl und die wahrscheinlichen Konsequenzen für die deutsche Politik gesprochen. In der Online-Ausgabe gibt...
View ArticleAgenda Setting, Japanese Style
It’s amazing: Just 36 hours after the horrible earth quake in Japan, 60000 people are demonstrating in Swabia – against nuclear energy. While we do not know whether the Japanese plants are actually in...
View ArticleAgenda Set, Japanese Style II
As predicted yesterday, the nuclear disaster in Japan is having a profound impact on something as trivial as three state election campaigns in Germany, more than 9000 kilometres away. Roughly 70 per...
View ArticleSports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its...
Just under one year after the fact, here is my analysis of the latest election in Rhineland-Palatinate. The 2011 election in Rhineland-Palatinate was a political earthquake: Following a string of...
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