Sarah Elise Wiliarty

The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the CDU has responded to changing demands from women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9780521765824
• ISBN-10: 052176582X
• Artikelnr.: 30366758

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a democratic paradox?
1. The puzzle of CDU policy making on women's issues
2. The corporatist catch-all party model
3. The postwar CDU: origins of a corporatist catch-all party
4. The emergence of the Women's Union, 1969-1982
5. The Women's Union in the dominant coalition, 1982-1989
6. Looking eastward: the Women's Union and cobbled coalitions, 1989-1998
7. The rise of Angela Merkel: policy and personnel decisions of the CDU in unified Germany
8. Christian democracy with and without corporatism: policy making on women's issues in Austria, Italy and the Netherlands
Conclusion
Appendix A: list of cited interviews.