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Comparing Donald J. Trump’s achievements in his first hundred days with those of his predecessors in the White House, the picture regarding the realm of domestic policies looks ambivalent . The political agenda of the Trump-administration has seen...

Barack Obama wanted to be a transformational president in the mould of Franklin D. Roosevelt - he was not . According to Stephen Skowronek’s leadership types, Obama was a “preemptive” president who had to make political concessions to the...

Republican Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States on November 8, 2016 after a campaign run on domestic issues, a lot of “post-truth” populism and fearmongering about social and economic decline . The shift from Barack Obama...

The outcome of the 2016 presidential election once again maintained the coherence of the American two-party system . Strong institutional barriers prevent third parties from breaking the political duopoly of Democrats and Republicans . Though...

In the 2016 Congressional elections in the USA, the Republican Party succeeded in confirming its majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives . Although they lost two seats in the Senate and six seats in the House they managed to...

Unlike in parliamentary systems, policy-making in the United States is not driven by political parties . Their roles have been assumed by “issue networks” or “advocacy coalitions”, whose like-minded participants - members of the...

Under which conditions can a constituency be counted as safe? This question is especially important for parties and candidates, yet has found different answers among scholars . Based on results since the 1998 Bundestag election the article...

The events of 2016 challenged several well-established theories about the nature of U .S . presidential primary campaigns: that the party itself would ultimately control the nomination process; that an efficient campaign organization on the ground...

State-level elections in Baden-Württemberg are run under an unusual mixed-member electoral system, which gives citizens just one vote, but does not use party lists - allocating seats in the second tier to the “best losers” from the plurality...

The result of the forthcoming federal elections in Germany might be a Bundestag consisting of six parliamentary parties. In this case creating a majority government will pose a challenge because the prolongation of the governing grand coalition is...

When the party was founded in 2013, AfD supporters earned above-average incomes but over time there has been a shift towards an average income. Despite this downward shift, AfD supporters are not overly worried about their own economic situation;...

(1) Die vierte Amtszeit des Regierenden Bürgermeisters Klaus Wowereit wurde zunehmend durch die Probleme beim Bau des Flughafens Berlin Brandenburg überschattet. Nach der vierten Verschiebung des Eröffnungstermins im Januar 2013 brachen seine...

The political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is not only a Euro-sceptic party but also a right-wing populist party. This classification is widely agreed upon in the journalistic debate whereas the academic literature comments cautiously on...

Under current law, there is no legal basis to reclaim financial subsidies provided to parliamentary parties of the German Bundestag if they have been used improperly and contrary to their statutory purpose. The article analyses the statutory regime...

(1) Der Wahlkampf in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern war durch einen themenbezogenen Bundestrend um die Fragen von Geflüchteten, Zuwanderung und Integration geprägt. Die damit einhergehende Polarisierung überlagerte landespolitische Themen, was letztlich...

Article 29 of the Deputy Act contains various provisions for the accounting of several remunerations from public funds, both with regard to the compensation of active members of the Bundestag and with regard to the pension entitlements of former...

Since they first entered a regional Parliament on state level (Bundesländer) in 2014, the far right “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) went on to being represented in nine further state parliaments. Given that the AfD was founded only two years...

The Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) is a new German political party, which has been successful from the European Parliament elections in 2014 to various elections held on state level thereafter. To locate the AfD in the...