Independent local lists in East and West Germany
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Independent local lists in East and West Germany. / Göhlert, Stefan; Holtmann, Everhard; Krappidel, Adrienne et al.
Farewell to the party model?: Independent local lists in East and West European countries. ed. / Marion Reiser; Everhard Holtmann. Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008. p. 127-148.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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T1 - Independent local lists in East and West Germany
AU - Göhlert, Stefan
AU - Holtmann, Everhard
AU - Krappidel, Adrienne
AU - Reiser, Marion
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Since 1945, independent local lists have been an established part of the local political system in Germany, with conspicuous strongholds in Southern Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg). After successful years in the formative phase of the German party system, followed by a weak period, independent lists went through a remarkable revival over the last two decades. Today, local lists are a regular feature in West Germany’s political landscape and successful in every state, while still maintaining strongholds in the south. Also, in East Germany, they were able to establish themselves almost effortlessly after 1990. Apparently, this happened without personal, financial, and organisational help from the West as it was the case for the party system, whose (re)formation after 1990 was part of the institutional transfer from the West to the East. In East Germany, these local lists became an integral part in the process of societal re-organisation and political reformation after the collapse of 1989–90. But despite of this almost area-wide presence of non-partisan local lists in East and West Germany, there is very little research in this field.
AB - Since 1945, independent local lists have been an established part of the local political system in Germany, with conspicuous strongholds in Southern Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg). After successful years in the formative phase of the German party system, followed by a weak period, independent lists went through a remarkable revival over the last two decades. Today, local lists are a regular feature in West Germany’s political landscape and successful in every state, while still maintaining strongholds in the south. Also, in East Germany, they were able to establish themselves almost effortlessly after 1990. Apparently, this happened without personal, financial, and organisational help from the West as it was the case for the party system, whose (re)formation after 1990 was part of the institutional transfer from the West to the East. In East Germany, these local lists became an integral part in the process of societal re-organisation and political reformation after the collapse of 1989–90. But despite of this almost area-wide presence of non-partisan local lists in East and West Germany, there is very little research in this field.
KW - Politics
KW - Small Community
KW - City Council
KW - Local Politics
KW - Local Election
KW - Political Parti
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-531-90923-3_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-531-90923-3_8
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-531-15687-3
SP - 127
EP - 148
BT - Farewell to the party model?
A2 - Reiser, Marion
A2 - Holtmann, Everhard
PB - VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
CY - Wiesbaden
ER -