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Sarah Elise Wiliarty - The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany

Bringing Women to the Party

Av Sarah Elise Wiliarty

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This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when catch-all parties reach out to new constituencies, they are forced to decrease the involvement of membership to facilitate doctrinal flexibility. In a corporatist catch-all party, however, societal interests are represented within the party organization and policy making is the result of internal party negotiation. Through an investigation of CDU policy making in the issue areas of abortion policy, work-family policy, and participation policy, this book demonstrates that sometimes the CDU mobilizes rather than disempowers membership. An important lesson of this study is that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-08-16
  • Mått: 162 x 236 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 530 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 284
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521765824
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Sarah Elise Wiliarty is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University. Her research interests include political parties, women and politics, and Christian Democracy. Professor Wiliarty has published articles in German Politics and Politics and Gender and co-edited The Transformation of Postwar Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood (1999, with John S. Brady and Beverly Crawford).

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'Sarah Wiliarty provides a fascinating look inside one of the largest and most important political parties in Europe. In closely analyzing a 'traditional' party's response to gender issues, in developing a new and compelling perspective on party organization, and in linking the empirical literature on political parties to normative democratic theory, this book deserves a wide audience.' David Art, Tufts University

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