Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
SPD-Left Party/PDS Coalitions in the Eastern German Länder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3643111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan R Olsen (0000-0002-5356-8615, corresponding author), Jonathan Olsen, Dan Hough (0000-0003-3695-7472) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/gps.2007.250301 |
| OpenAlex | W2000455820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
Cold war · German · German reunification · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Public Administration and Political Analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |