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Andreas Klärner erhob mehr als zwei Jahre lang detaillierte empirische Daten über Aktionen und Akteure rechtsextremer Gruppen in einer deutschen Stadt. Er führte intensive Gespräche mit lokalen Führungspersonen und Basisaktivisten der rechtsextremen Bewegung, erkundete deren gewalttätiges Umfeld und arbeitet heraus, warum das medial verbreitete Klischee des dumpfen Nazi-Skinheads längst überholt ist. Zumindest verbal distanzieren sich heute viele rechtsextremistische Kader und überzeugte Neonazis öffentlich von Gewalt und versuchen ihre Anhänger zu disziplinieren. Nach außen gerieren sie sich

By investigating U.S. and German industrial adjustments, in particular, the dynamic process of transformation in the U.S. and German automotive industries, this article seeks to reconceptualize the market and politics. Although the U.S. and German automotive industries showed a strikingly similar pattern of industrial adjustments, such as deintegration of in-house production, lean production, and closely interactive market relations, these seemingly converging markets differ from the neoliberal paradigm. Although the U.S. and German markets diverge in solving conflicts emerging in the newly established markets, their differences are not predetermined by particular cultures or institutions found in each country. This article claims that market rationality and market governance are not predetermined by an abstract, universally relevant market rationality or by cultural and institutional heritages, rather that the market rationality and its governance are continuously constituted by agents' discursive politics.

While still vastly underrepresented and lagging behind political representation in several other European democracies, more ethnic minorities and immigrants have entered the German Bundestag in 2013 than ever before. This is one of several indicators of Germany's political departure from hegemonic ethnic self-understandings, signaling the nation's complicated, partly still-contested evolution towards political self-conceptions as a "country of immigration." A significant unanswered question is how and how far this process, which can be conceived as cosmopolitanization, has transformed party politics. This article examines the scope and causes of cosmopolitanization in three dimensions of German party politics after the 2013 Bundestag election: political discourse and programmatic positions on immigration, citizenship, identity, and ethno-cultural diversity; the policy regime of mainstream parties on immigration and the inclusion of ethnic minorities; and the fielding of minority candidates for national public office. It is argued that a belated postethnic cosmopolitanization of German party politics is primarily caused by transformed demographic realities, value change, and new electoral demands. Mainstream political parties—including the center right—have been reluctant but ultimately rational strategic agents reacting to these transformations in the electoral market. Yet, the scope and character of cosmopolitanization also depends on external and internal supply side conditions that enable parties to make programmatic changes, depolarize key issues of the immigration and citizenship policy regime, and recruit ethnic minorities for political representation. In European comparative perspective, the German case may serve as a model for theorizing the cosmopolitanization of party politics.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors, and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal system, and administrative bodies. Students of political science and area studies also learn about processes of democratic transition and autocratic resilience, as well as how civil society and the media influence the political culture in each country. This second edition features revised and updated versions of all country studies and a new chapter that discusses the trends of democratization and autocratization in Southeast Asia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

In der Politikwissenschaft wird seit Jahren die These vertreten, dass eine stetig wachsende Parteipolitisierung auf kommunaler Ebene zu verzeichnen sei, was normativ zumeist begrüßt wird. In diesem Buch wird demgegenüber gezeigt, dass in den Kommunen unterschiedlicher Bundesländer der Parteieneinfluss und die Stellung des direktgewählten Bürgermeisters ganz erheblich variieren, seit den 1990er Jahren keine stärkere Parteipolitisierung mehr zu verzeichnen ist und eine starke Parteipolitisierung durchweg zu problematischen Politikergebnissen führt. Das Buch basiert auf einer Sekundäranalyse aller seit 1945 vorgelegten empirischen Studien zu Parteien und Bürgermeistern in der deutschen Kommunalpolitik und einer Auswertung eigener landesweiter Befragungen kommunaler Entscheidungsträger.

This paper examines whether decisions at the core of international security politics, namely decisions on the deployment of military forces, have undergone a process of politicization. It is guided by two interrelated questions, namely a) whether deployment decisions have been politically contested and b) what kind of party-political cleavage has emerged in this process. We examine data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) as well as data that we gathered on parliamentary votes on deployment decisions in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. We find that military deployments have indeed been contested amongst political parties. Further and notwithstanding country-specific peculiarities, we find that the partypolitical cleavage is by and large captured by the left/right-axis. ; Dieses Arbeitspapier untersucht, ob Entscheidungen über den Einsatz von Streitkräften als Kernbereich internationaler Sicherheitspolitik einem Politisierungsprozess unterworfen sind. Wir benutzen Daten des Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) sowie von uns selbst gesammelte Daten von Parlamentsabstimmungen zu Einsatzentscheidungen in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Spanien, um zwei Fragen nachzugehen: erstens, ob Einsatzentscheidungen politisch kontrovers waren; und zweitens, welche Art parteipolitischer Auseinandersetzung und Trennungslinien dabei zu erkennen sind. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen zum einen, dass militärische Einsatzentscheidungen tatsächlich parteipolitisch umstritten waren. Zum anderen wird trotz verbleibender länderspezifischer Unterschiede deutlich, dass sich diese Politisierung größtenteils an einer parteipolitischen links-rechts-Achse entlang bewegt.

"In the 1970s, a multifaceted alternative scene developed in West Germany. At the core of this leftist scene was a struggle for feelings in a capitalist world that seemed to be devoid of any emotions. Joachim C. Häberlen offers a vivid account of these emotional politics. The book discusses critiques of rationality and celebrations of insanity as an alternative. It explores why capitalism made people feel afraid and why modern cities made people feel lonely. Readers are taken to consciousness raising groups, nude swimming at alternative vacation camps, and into the squatted houses of the early 1980s. Häberlen draws on a kaleidoscope of different voices to explore how West Germans became more concerned with their selves, their feelings and their bodies. By investigating how leftists tried to transform themselves through emotional practices, Häberlen gives us a fresh perspective on a fascinating aspect of West German history."--