The Headaches and Heartaches of Globalization
A Review of Oskar Lafontaine’s Das Herz schlägt links
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14985306 |
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| Authors | Anne Sa’adah (Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Anne Sa'Adah (Dartmouth College and Harvard University) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-133 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Politics & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-0300 • E-ISSN: 1558-5441 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/104503000782486688 |
| OpenAlex | W2020170697 |
| Language | EN |
On March 11, 1999, Oskar Lafontaine stunned the Social Democratic Party by resigning all his public positions: he stepped down as Minister of Finance, chair of the SPD, and member of the Bundestag, summoned his car, and headed for the Saarland. Lafontaine seemed somehow to have believed that he would be able to operate alongside Gerhard Schröder as a kind of co-chancellor; Schröder, predictably, preferred other arrangements. In the postelection euphoria of September 1998, the two rivals, whose cooperation had been essential to the social democratic victory, acknowledged their mutual dependence and pledged their continued “friendship.” In the year and a half that followed, they clashed constantly: on policy, on politics, on appointments
Art history · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · oskar · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social Democratic Party · Victory · European Union Policy and Governance · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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