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Informationen zum Autor Christian Søe is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. Klappentext The 2002 campaign and election was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Federal Republic. An unprecedented last minute swing narrowly re-elected the Social Democratic-Green government of Chancellor Schroeder. The campaign featured the first-ever American style television debate between the two candidates for the chancellorship. Foreign policy, particularly the refusal of Schroeder to support the Iraq policies of US President George W. Bush, played an unusually important role. In the aftermath of the election the government was faced with a deteriorating economy and the charge of the opposition that it had deliberately mislead voters during the campaign. In this volume, distinguished experts from both sides of the Atlantic analyse these and other critical issues. Their work is based on extensive research in Germany and Washington, which included interviews with major political figures and the collection of new campaign and election data. Contributors: William Patterson, E. Gene Frankland, Clay Clemens, Christian Søe, Gerald R. Kleinfeld, David Patton, Dieter Roth, Mary N. Hampton, Ferdinand Breitbach, Irwin Collier, Helga Welsh, Stephen Szabo. Zusammenfassung Having produced volumes on the 1994 and 1998 German elections, political scientists based in the US here look at the 2002 election, in which a last-minute swing returned the parties of Gerhard Schr der's government. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction David P. Conradt, Gerald R. Kleinfeld, and Christian Søe Chapter 1. The 2002 Campaign and Election: An Overview David P. Conradt Chapter 2. Who Won and Why Dieter Roth Chapter 3. Gerhard Schröder and the Unlikely Victory of the German Social Democrats William E. Paterson and James Sloam Chapter 4. Hold the Champagne: Edmund Stoiber's CDU/CSU and Bundestagswahl 2002 Clay Clemens Chapter 5. Saving Schröder: The Greens in 2002 E. Gene Frankland Chapter 6. A False Dawn for Germany’s Liberals: The Rise and Fall of Project 18 Christian Søe Chapter 7. The PDS Implode Gerald R. Kleinfeld Chapter 8. Ladies’ Choice: Returning the Schröder Government to Power in 2002 Mary N. Hampton Chapter 9. Dogs That Did Not Bark: German Exceptionalism Reconsidered David F. Patton Chapter 10. The Poisoned Relationship: Germany, the United States, and the Election of 2002 Stephen F. Szabo Chapter 11. German Policymaking and the Reform Gridlock Helga A. Welsh Chapter 12. Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment Irwin Collier Appendix Notes on Contributors Index ...
