jamaica coalition

• Towards Institutional Gridlock? The Limitations of Germany's Consensus Democracy

The September 2005 general election forced Germany's two largest political parties, CDU/CSU and SPD, to form the second grand coalition government in the country's post-war history. The election result was widely regarded as an expression of the view amongst the electorate that neither of the two main political camps could offer adequate solutions to the urgent political, social and economic challenges which the larger Germany has been facing since reunification in 1990. This article argues that the failure of the grand coalition to implement substantial changes of the policy and institutional status quo reveals the intrinsic structural weaknesses of Germany's "semisovereign" political system, which favors continuity over change. The democratic process in the unified Germany continues t...

... between SPD, B90/Grune and FDP, a "Jamaica" coalition between CDU, FDP and B90/Grune or alter...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, Januar 2010

• Towards institutional gridlock? The limitations of Germany's consensus democracy.

... that the formation of the second grand coalition government in Germany's post-war history has revea... between SPD, B90/Grune and FDP, a "Jamaica" coalition between CDU, FDP and B90/Grune or alter...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, März 2010