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The West Berlin anti-authoritarians around Rudi Dutschke employed a notion of subaltern nationalism inspired by independence struggles in the global South and particularly by post 1959 Cuba to legitimate their loosely understood plans to recreate West Berlin as a revolutionary island. Responding to Che Guevara's call for many Vietnams, they imagined this Northern metropolis as a Focus spreading socialism of the third way throughout Europe, a conception that united their local and global aims. In focusing on their interpretation of societal changes and structures in Cuba, the anti-authoritarians deemphasized these plans' potential for violence. As a study of West German leftists in transnational context, this article suggests the limitations of confining analyses of their projects within national or Northern paradigms. As a study of the influence of the global South on the North in a non-(post)colonial situation, it suggests that such influence is greater than has heretofore been understood.

Selectorates in pure proportional systems may use list nomination procedures to nominate women as well as men in an effort to broaden a party's electoral appeal & to serve intraparty interests. In personalized proportional systems, however, the incentive structure of list nomination is different due to the parallel existence of single-member district nominations. Interaction effects between the nomination procedures are apparent with regard to the high number of double candidacies. This significantly alters the strategic choices of party selectorates. By comparing list nomination procedures preceding elections to the Gen-nan Lander parliaments from 2000 to 2004, we show how an interactive relationship between double nominations & candidate gender quotas accounts for the variance in women's chances of being represented. Adapted from the source document.

In mainstream analyses of the German political system, the emergence of the Left Party (Die Linke) is presented as an unexpected consequence of German unification and as an indication of the existence of an East-West divide. This view is for the most part based on the idea that German unification is a process of political integration of the East into the West. Such an understanding, however, downplays the long-term developments in the German party system. This article examines the emergence of the Left Party in light of both the long-term developmental tendencies of the German party system and findings from comparative studies among other West European countries. The article concludes that the main reason for the current political stalemate is the incapability of the postwar Volksparteien to respond to changes in political space and action. Based on evidence from comparative studies, the article also suggests a pragmatic rethinking especially in the SPD is necessary in dealings with the Left Party.

Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse von (Kinder-)Armuts- und Reichtumsverhältnissen hinsichtlich demografischer Probleme, dem Verhältnis zwischen den Generationen, zwischen Eltern und Kinderlosen sowie Familien und dem Sozialstaat. Es wird untersucht, was geschieht, wenn soziale Fragen und Probleme in demografische, generationenspezifische und familienpolitische Konfliktlinien umgedeutet werden. Als ein Ergebnis der Studie ist zu erkennen, dass mittels Rekurrierung auf Demografie, Generationengerechtigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Familienausbeutung soziale Ungleichheitsstrukturen innerhalb von Bevölkerungsentwicklungen, Generationenverhältnissen sowie zwischen und innerhalb von Familien ausgeblendet werden.