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Pivotal Parties in Germany Since 1961

2010· article· en· W95702505 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPublic Administration and Political Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGermanPolitical scienceGovernment (linguistics)PoliticsDemocracyPublic administrationState (computer science)Political economySocial Democratic PartyGerman governmentCoalition governmentLawEconomicsGeography
DOInot available

Abstract

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Germany has a multiparty system in which coalition governments are the norm. In this paper we focus on the role that ‘pivotal’ parties have played in German government formation, both nationally and across the Lander. Traditionally the main pivotal party in the German party system was the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Since the early 1980s, however, the Green party has increasingly established itself an alternative to the FDP in this regard. From the 1961 West German election onwards no federal party has won an outright majority and every government has been a coalition. In the 1960s and 1970s, when there were only three parties in the Bundestag, the Free Democrats provided the hinge or the ‘pivot’ around which the two-dimensional German party system revolved, and it affected decisively the nature of the federal government and chancellor. This changed once the Greens established themselves as a viable coalition partner (so far at the national level only for the SPD, though). The FDP’s bargaining position was weakened as a result. In this paper we shall thus assess the hinge role of the FDP in the 1961 to 1981 time period and then the hinge role of each of the FDP and the Greens in the period since 1982. This will be done both federally and at the state-level. A five-point scale of “opportunity structure” (influence) will be used. Overall, we shall demonstrate how and where the Greens have replaced or at least equalled the FDP as the key hinge party in German politics.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.130
Threshold uncertainty score0.894

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it