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1.   Fiftieth Anniversary of the Basic Law (May 28, 1999)
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Basic....
2.   The New Left (June 25-26, 2005)
According to journalist Jens Bisky, the “strange East-West alliance” between the PDS and the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice [Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit....
3.   The Agenda of the Grand Coalition (November 2005)
Coalition agreements have existed since 1949, but they have only been made public in the past few decades. The coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and the SPD was signed in November 2005. The....
4.   The Impact of a Grand Coalition on Political Events (November 22, 2005)
Shortly before the Grand Coalition took power, political scientist Franz Walter talked about how a Grand Coalition functioned and described its potential impact on the political system. He was responding....
5.   The FDP, the Party of Neoliberalism (May 11, 2006)
FDP chairman Guido Westerwelle contributed substantially to the programmatic changes in his party. Under his leadership, the FDP propagated neoliberal policies....
6.   Internal Security (May 22, 2006)
The annual report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution aims to inform the citizenry about the main areas of political extremism. Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang....
7.   The Mother of All Reforms (November 8, 2006)
After years of negotiations, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat passed the first part of the so-called federalism reform in the summer of 2006. The history of the reform effort and the most important....
8.   One Year of the Grand Coalition (November 20, 2006)
After a year in office, the Grand Coalition’s record was mixed. Although Chancellor Angela Merkel had clear majorities in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, she....
9.   The Greens after the Change in Government (November 21, 2006)
Dietmar Huber, press spokesman for the parliamentary faction of Alliance 90/The Greens from 1994 to early 2006, analyzes why the Greens had such a hard time in the opposition. After Joschka....
10.   The SPD's Future (September 6, 2009)
Journalist Volker Zastrow discusses some of the SPD’s longstanding problems. This article was published before the SPD’s disastrous performance in the Bundestag election in September 2009, in which....
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