Suchergebnisse

In der vorliegenden Publikation beschäftigt sich Hubert Kleinert zunächst mit der Problematik der sozialwissenschaftlichen Zu- und Einordnung der AfD und ihrer Mitglieder. Die Grundlage dieser Analyse bildet eine empirische Untersuchung der politischen Einstellungen von AfD-Mitgliedern in zwei hessischen Kreisverbänden. Weitere Kapitel zur Geschichte und zur Programmatik der Partei runden die kompakte Argumentation ab.

The debate about the franchise change in Germany, made necessary by the sentence of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2008 meanwhile has led to a new electoral law against which the opposition parties have filed a lawsuit in Karlsruhe. The ruling of the Constitutional Court can be regarded as problematic as it equates consciously deployable tactics with pure mathematical proceedings for turning votes into seats, which remained unopposed for over half a century. The public debate is distorted when it comes to surplus seats. Frequently this gives the impression as if the sole purpose of a democratic right to vote were the certainly very important objective of an utmost accurate reflection of the electorate's voting behaviour in parliamentary seats. But in fact there are other goals, too and there can be some deviation from the principle of an equal value of success for every vote with any suffrage, which is not pure proportional representation. This is also proven by a comparison with other Western countries, where different democratic voting rights usually lead to greater deviations than in Germany. The "minimally invasive" solution adopted by the parliamentary majority falls short of the goal. However, the options suggested by the opposition are even less suitable. Their alternatives to remove the surplus seats would create new problems simultaneously, which in turn would be even graver. To solve the problems of the surplus seats for good, the best solution would be to replace the single constituencies by two-member constituencies. Adapted from the source document.

"Es mehren sich Anzeichen für einen Wandel der Demokratie: Konstitutionelle Elemente werden schwächer, neue, außerkonstitutionelle Elemente stärker. Volksabstimmungen auf Bundesebene müssen vor diesem Hintergrund bewertet werden." (Autorenreferat)

"Obwohl die Grünen eine hohe Veteranendichte aufweisen und ihnen ein Mobilisierungsthema fehlt, scheint ihnen ein gutes Wahlergebnis jenseits der zehn Prozent sicher. Problematisch sind allein ihre strategischen Machtoptionen." (Autorenreferat)

For Hubert Kleinert, political scientist and longtime Member of Parliament for the Greens, the current success of the Greens can be ascribed to long-lasting cultural and socio-structural trends as well as a current discontent with other parties and current opportunity structures. However, it is unclear if all three conditions will remain the same. Surely, the Greens will stay the third power in Germany's party system; but if they will be able to remain as successful as today is questionable. Adapted from the source document