Clay Clemens
Biographic Data
| ID | 306573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clay Clemens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clay |
| FAMILY NAME | Clemens |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The CDU/CSU's Ambivalent 2017 Campaign
Four inter-related factors shaped the 2017 campaign of Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU: (1) ambivalence over her successful modernization of the CDU; (2) fallout from her 2015 refugee policy; (3) a party strategy that bred complacency while mobilizing skeptics; and (4) tactical miscalculations. Merkel's CDU/CSU came in first, but suffered record losses, while the rightwing populist Alternative for Germany emerged as Germany's third party. The campaign, i…
Explaining Merkel's Autonomy in the Grand Coalition
Chancellor Angela Merkel's independence from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) during the second Grand Coalition (2005–09) can be seen as consistent with broader trends toward presidentialism and personalised politics. Both would suggest that any publicly popular chief executive who seems likely to win it vital voter support can expect broad latitude from a party's dominant coalition while in office. Yet there was also an important organis…
Lose-Lose Proposition
Contrary to many common expectations for a Grand Coalition, Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2005-2009 CDU/CSU-SPD government produced few major policy changes. Its modest output is generally attributed to polarized competition between two co-equal, longtime rivals that blocked cooperation. Yet, interparty gridlock was less decisive than intraparty paralysis. The CDU, CSU, and SPD formed a government at the very time when each was plagued by internal d…
Modernisation or Disorientation? Policy Change in Merkel's CDU
After decades of relative continuity, the Christian Democratic Union began making major modifications in its basic policy orientations after 1998. These waves of modernisation largely vindicate traditional explanations of party change, as they resulted from a combination of external shocks (electoral decline); leadership transition (Angela Merkel's consolidation of power); and internal factional change (weakening of the CDU's traditional conserva…
The Grand Coalition and a Changing Political Order
Since its 2005 federal election, Germany has been governed by the country's two historically strongest political rivals, the center-right Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Despite initial hope in some quarters that this broad-based Grand Coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel could overcome partisan gridlock and enact major policy changes, seeking to work together has only…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Given its traditional support for conservative welfare state policies, the Christian Democratic Union's embrace of major reform measures in late 2003 seemingly marked a significant shift in the party's direction. The extent of its commitment to this new course became a key question in German politics during the election of 2005 and the early phase of Angela Merkel's Grand Coalition. This article examines the factors that contributed to her CDU's …
From the Outside In
As chair of the CDU in 2000, and of its joint Bundestag caucus with the CSU in 2002, Angela Merkel was the fist woman and fist easterner to head a major German party; she had risen as a protege of Helmut Kohl, but breaking with him over his financial improprieties vaulted her into power. These features of her biography made her leadership unconventional. So too did her style, characterized by interpersonal reserve and lack of charisma. Merkel's v…
A Few Bad Apples or a Spoiled Barrel? The CDU Party Finance Scandal Five Years Later
It was the biggest political scandal in postwar German history. As revelation followed revelation in late 1999, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party finance (Parteifinanz) affair tarnished careers, most notably those of former chancellor Helmut Kohl and, separately, his longtime heir apparent Wolfgang Schäuble. When both fell, their party gained a new cadre of leaders. Most analysts expected the fallout ultimately to spread much further, fa…
A legacy reassessed
Revelations about former chancellor Helmut Kohl's party finance practices spawned the biggest scandal in post‐war German political history. Though some details of this affair's scope remained unclear or in dispute, the author argues that large, unreported private contributions served Kohl's strategy for managing his Christian Democratic Union: such resources helped fund the modern party organisation that he had built and sustained his own quasi‐f…
Crisis or Catharsis? Germany's CDU After the Party Finance Affair
That old cliche Wechselbad der Emotionen aptly describes how Christian Democrats have felt since Germany's September 1998 federal election. First came a crushing defeat, their worst showing in decades, and the end of sixteen years in power under Helmut Kohl, "chancellor of unity." Two of Kohl's proteges, newly chosen federal party and Bundestag caucus chair, Wolfgang Schäuble, and his handpicked general secretary, Angela Merkel, then helped the C…
Introduction
Party management as a leadership resource
While his predecessors expected the senior governing party to rally behind their policies and public appeal, Helmut Kohl took the work of managing his CDU seriously. As chairman in opposition during the 1970s he modernised its organisation, but in ways meant to maximise his own goal of gaining power in a coalition with the Liberals. Kohl's personal management style ‐ based on a network of elite allies, his balancing role among internal factions a…
Nato and the Quest for Post-Cold War Security
This volume presents often sharply contrasting views on the future of NATO. Its contributors, mainly security specialists, cover structural reform of NATO and its relationship with the European Union
The chancellor as manager
This article examines the relationship between German chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Union. It first explains why his predecessors met with different degrees of success in winning support for government decisions from their own parties. An assessment of Kohl's record then confirms that attracting voters is less critical in this regard than serving as a link within the coalition and as a manager of party‐internal affirs. Kohl'…
Disquiet on the eastern front
During the process of unification, Helmut Kohl's CDU established itself as the major political force in eastern Germany. Yet its initial electoral successes and cohesion rested in part on the unique conditions of 1990. As Kohl's government struggled to deal with the task of rebuilding eastern Germany during the next two years, his party dropped quickly in public approval, exposing the underlying fragility of its early support. Internal issues, la…
Opportunity or Obligation? Redefining Germany's Military Role Outside of Nato
For decades, deployment of the German Bundeswehr beyond the NATO Treaty area has been officially regarded as unconstitutional, a position that also reflected a broad ambivalence in postwar Germany about the use of military power. While this attitude remains largely unchanged, Bonn's leaders have recently begun discussing a less restrictive policy on out-of-area commitments. They want united Germany to be seen as a fully sovereign international ac…
Reluctant Realists
This is a study of the evolution of the West German Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) approach to relations with the Soviet bloc (and particularly East Germany), from fierce antagonism to any accommodation with Communist regimes in 1969 to the growing acceptance of the necessity for rapprochement in the 1980s. Clay Clemens, basing his analyses on interviews with leading political figures as well as on party documents, ex…
Beyond INF
Journal Article Beyond INF: West Germany's centre-right party and arms control in the 1990s Get access Clay Clemens Clay Clemens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 1988, Pages 55–74, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620982 Published: 01 January 1988
Im Schatten der Geschichte
The chancellor as manager
This article examines the relationship between German chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Union. It first explains why his predecessors met with different degrees of success in winning support for government decisions from their own parties. An assessment of Kohl's record then confirms that attracting voters is less critical in this regard than serving as a link within the coalition and as a manager of party‐internal affirs. Kohl'…
Modernisation or Disorientation? Policy Change in Merkel's CDU
After decades of relative continuity, the Christian Democratic Union began making major modifications in its basic policy orientations after 1998. These waves of modernisation largely vindicate traditional explanations of party change, as they resulted from a combination of external shocks (electoral decline); leadership transition (Angela Merkel's consolidation of power); and internal factional change (weakening of the CDU's traditional conserva…
Party management as a leadership resource
While his predecessors expected the senior governing party to rally behind their policies and public appeal, Helmut Kohl took the work of managing his CDU seriously. As chairman in opposition during the 1970s he modernised its organisation, but in ways meant to maximise his own goal of gaining power in a coalition with the Liberals. Kohl's personal management style ‐ based on a network of elite allies, his balancing role among internal factions a…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Given its traditional support for conservative welfare state policies, the Christian Democratic Union's embrace of major reform measures in late 2003 seemingly marked a significant shift in the party's direction. The extent of its commitment to this new course became a key question in German politics during the election of 2005 and the early phase of Angela Merkel's Grand Coalition. This article examines the factors that contributed to her CDU's …
From the Outside In
As chair of the CDU in 2000, and of its joint Bundestag caucus with the CSU in 2002, Angela Merkel was the fist woman and fist easterner to head a major German party; she had risen as a protege of Helmut Kohl, but breaking with him over his financial improprieties vaulted her into power. These features of her biography made her leadership unconventional. So too did her style, characterized by interpersonal reserve and lack of charisma. Merkel's v…
Explaining Merkel's Autonomy in the Grand Coalition
Chancellor Angela Merkel's independence from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) during the second Grand Coalition (2005–09) can be seen as consistent with broader trends toward presidentialism and personalised politics. Both would suggest that any publicly popular chief executive who seems likely to win it vital voter support can expect broad latitude from a party's dominant coalition while in office. Yet there was also an important organis…
A legacy reassessed
Revelations about former chancellor Helmut Kohl's party finance practices spawned the biggest scandal in post‐war German political history. Though some details of this affair's scope remained unclear or in dispute, the author argues that large, unreported private contributions served Kohl's strategy for managing his Christian Democratic Union: such resources helped fund the modern party organisation that he had built and sustained his own quasi‐f…
The CDU/CSU's Ambivalent 2017 Campaign
Four inter-related factors shaped the 2017 campaign of Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU: (1) ambivalence over her successful modernization of the CDU; (2) fallout from her 2015 refugee policy; (3) a party strategy that bred complacency while mobilizing skeptics; and (4) tactical miscalculations. Merkel's CDU/CSU came in first, but suffered record losses, while the rightwing populist Alternative for Germany emerged as Germany's third party. The campaign, i…
Introduction
Disquiet on the eastern front
During the process of unification, Helmut Kohl's CDU established itself as the major political force in eastern Germany. Yet its initial electoral successes and cohesion rested in part on the unique conditions of 1990. As Kohl's government struggled to deal with the task of rebuilding eastern Germany during the next two years, his party dropped quickly in public approval, exposing the underlying fragility of its early support. Internal issues, la…
Lose-Lose Proposition
Contrary to many common expectations for a Grand Coalition, Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2005-2009 CDU/CSU-SPD government produced few major policy changes. Its modest output is generally attributed to polarized competition between two co-equal, longtime rivals that blocked cooperation. Yet, interparty gridlock was less decisive than intraparty paralysis. The CDU, CSU, and SPD formed a government at the very time when each was plagued by internal d…
The Grand Coalition and a Changing Political Order
Since its 2005 federal election, Germany has been governed by the country's two historically strongest political rivals, the center-right Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Despite initial hope in some quarters that this broad-based Grand Coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel could overcome partisan gridlock and enact major policy changes, seeking to work together has only…
Opportunity or Obligation? Redefining Germany's Military Role Outside of Nato
For decades, deployment of the German Bundeswehr beyond the NATO Treaty area has been officially regarded as unconstitutional, a position that also reflected a broad ambivalence in postwar Germany about the use of military power. While this attitude remains largely unchanged, Bonn's leaders have recently begun discussing a less restrictive policy on out-of-area commitments. They want united Germany to be seen as a fully sovereign international ac…
Im Schatten der Geschichte
Beyond INF
Journal Article Beyond INF: West Germany's centre-right party and arms control in the 1990s Get access Clay Clemens Clay Clemens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 1988, Pages 55–74, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620982 Published: 01 January 1988
Reluctant Realists
This is a study of the evolution of the West German Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) approach to relations with the Soviet bloc (and particularly East Germany), from fierce antagonism to any accommodation with Communist regimes in 1969 to the growing acceptance of the necessity for rapprochement in the 1980s. Clay Clemens, basing his analyses on interviews with leading political figures as well as on party documents, ex…
Disquiet on the eastern front
During the process of unification, Helmut Kohl's CDU established itself as the major political force in eastern Germany. Yet its initial electoral successes and cohesion rested in part on the unique conditions of 1990. As Kohl's government struggled to deal with the task of rebuilding eastern Germany during the next two years, his party dropped quickly in public approval, exposing the underlying fragility of its early support. Internal issues, la…
Opportunity or Obligation? Redefining Germany's Military Role Outside of Nato
For decades, deployment of the German Bundeswehr beyond the NATO Treaty area has been officially regarded as unconstitutional, a position that also reflected a broad ambivalence in postwar Germany about the use of military power. While this attitude remains largely unchanged, Bonn's leaders have recently begun discussing a less restrictive policy on out-of-area commitments. They want united Germany to be seen as a fully sovereign international ac…
The chancellor as manager
This article examines the relationship between German chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democratic Union. It first explains why his predecessors met with different degrees of success in winning support for government decisions from their own parties. An assessment of Kohl's record then confirms that attracting voters is less critical in this regard than serving as a link within the coalition and as a manager of party‐internal affirs. Kohl'…
Nato and the Quest for Post-Cold War Security
This volume presents often sharply contrasting views on the future of NATO. Its contributors, mainly security specialists, cover structural reform of NATO and its relationship with the European Union
Introduction
Party management as a leadership resource
While his predecessors expected the senior governing party to rally behind their policies and public appeal, Helmut Kohl took the work of managing his CDU seriously. As chairman in opposition during the 1970s he modernised its organisation, but in ways meant to maximise his own goal of gaining power in a coalition with the Liberals. Kohl's personal management style ‐ based on a network of elite allies, his balancing role among internal factions a…
A legacy reassessed
Revelations about former chancellor Helmut Kohl's party finance practices spawned the biggest scandal in post‐war German political history. Though some details of this affair's scope remained unclear or in dispute, the author argues that large, unreported private contributions served Kohl's strategy for managing his Christian Democratic Union: such resources helped fund the modern party organisation that he had built and sustained his own quasi‐f…
Crisis or Catharsis? Germany's CDU After the Party Finance Affair
That old cliche Wechselbad der Emotionen aptly describes how Christian Democrats have felt since Germany's September 1998 federal election. First came a crushing defeat, their worst showing in decades, and the end of sixteen years in power under Helmut Kohl, "chancellor of unity." Two of Kohl's proteges, newly chosen federal party and Bundestag caucus chair, Wolfgang Schäuble, and his handpicked general secretary, Angela Merkel, then helped the C…
A Few Bad Apples or a Spoiled Barrel? The CDU Party Finance Scandal Five Years Later
It was the biggest political scandal in postwar German history. As revelation followed revelation in late 1999, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party finance (Parteifinanz) affair tarnished careers, most notably those of former chancellor Helmut Kohl and, separately, his longtime heir apparent Wolfgang Schäuble. When both fell, their party gained a new cadre of leaders. Most analysts expected the fallout ultimately to spread much further, fa…
From the Outside In
As chair of the CDU in 2000, and of its joint Bundestag caucus with the CSU in 2002, Angela Merkel was the fist woman and fist easterner to head a major German party; she had risen as a protege of Helmut Kohl, but breaking with him over his financial improprieties vaulted her into power. These features of her biography made her leadership unconventional. So too did her style, characterized by interpersonal reserve and lack of charisma. Merkel's v…
The Grand Coalition and a Changing Political Order
Since its 2005 federal election, Germany has been governed by the country's two historically strongest political rivals, the center-right Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Despite initial hope in some quarters that this broad-based Grand Coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel could overcome partisan gridlock and enact major policy changes, seeking to work together has only…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Given its traditional support for conservative welfare state policies, the Christian Democratic Union's embrace of major reform measures in late 2003 seemingly marked a significant shift in the party's direction. The extent of its commitment to this new course became a key question in German politics during the election of 2005 and the early phase of Angela Merkel's Grand Coalition. This article examines the factors that contributed to her CDU's …
Modernisation or Disorientation? Policy Change in Merkel's CDU
After decades of relative continuity, the Christian Democratic Union began making major modifications in its basic policy orientations after 1998. These waves of modernisation largely vindicate traditional explanations of party change, as they resulted from a combination of external shocks (electoral decline); leadership transition (Angela Merkel's consolidation of power); and internal factional change (weakening of the CDU's traditional conserva…
Lose-Lose Proposition
Contrary to many common expectations for a Grand Coalition, Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2005-2009 CDU/CSU-SPD government produced few major policy changes. Its modest output is generally attributed to polarized competition between two co-equal, longtime rivals that blocked cooperation. Yet, interparty gridlock was less decisive than intraparty paralysis. The CDU, CSU, and SPD formed a government at the very time when each was plagued by internal d…
Explaining Merkel's Autonomy in the Grand Coalition
Chancellor Angela Merkel's independence from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) during the second Grand Coalition (2005–09) can be seen as consistent with broader trends toward presidentialism and personalised politics. Both would suggest that any publicly popular chief executive who seems likely to win it vital voter support can expect broad latitude from a party's dominant coalition while in office. Yet there was also an important organis…
The CDU/CSU's Ambivalent 2017 Campaign
Four inter-related factors shaped the 2017 campaign of Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU: (1) ambivalence over her successful modernization of the CDU; (2) fallout from her 2015 refugee policy; (3) a party strategy that bred complacency while mobilizing skeptics; and (4) tactical miscalculations. Merkel's CDU/CSU came in first, but suffered record losses, while the rightwing populist Alternative for Germany emerged as Germany's third party. The campaign, i…
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