Germany's gathering crisis
Subtitle: the 2005 federal election and the grand coalition
By: Alister Miskimmon, William E. Paterson, James Sloam.
Contributors: Paterson, William E.; Sloam, James.
Series: New perspectives in German studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230516854
Subjects: Germany. -- Bundestag -- Elections, 2005; Elections -- Germany; Political parties -- Germany; Germany -- Economic policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William E. Paterson and James Sloam; title: Crisis in German economic statecraft? policy misfit, institutional gridlock, and firm-led adjustment / Kenneth Dyson; title: Endgame? the fiscal crisis of the German state / Wolfgang Streeck; title: Schroder's agenda 2010 : from "Plan B" to lasting legacy? / Andreas Busch; title: A crisis of influence? German foreign policy since 1998 / Alister Miskimmon; title: Catch-all parties catching less : the 2005 election and the decline of the German Volkspartei / James Sloam; title: Smaller parties and the 'normalisation' of the German party system / Dan Hough; title: The reform corridor : coalition building 2005 and the implications for policy and voters / Uwe Jun; title: Last orders? semisovereignty and the crisis of cost containment in the grand coalition / Simon Green and William E. Paterson; title: The internationalisation of Germany : adapting to Europeanisation and globalisation / Andreas Falke; title: Coping with the gathering crisis / Alister Miskimmon and William E. Paterson.