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Author Wiliarty, Sarah Elise, 1968- author.
Title The CDU and the politics of gender in Germany : bringing women to the Party / Sarah Elise Wiliarty.
Publication Info Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2010.


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Descript xiii, 267 p.
Note Formerly CIP.
Contents 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.
Note This title develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union has responded to changing demands from women over the past 40 years, showing that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls. Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years, showing that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls. This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when catch-all parties reach out to new constituencies, they are forced to decrease the involvement of membership to facilitate doctrinal flexibility. In a corporatist catch-all party, however, societal interests are represented within the party organization and policy making is the result of internal party negotiation. Through an investigation of CDU policy making in the issue areas of abortion policy, work-family policy, and participation policy, this book demonstrates that sometimes the CDU mobilizes rather than disempowers membership. An important lesson of this study is that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls.
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781107208803 (e-book)
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Author Wiliarty, Sarah Elise, 1968- author.
Subject Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands -- Membership.
Women -- Political activity -- Germany.
Women -- Government policy -- Germany.
Women -- Government policy -- Europe, German-speaking.
Descript xiii, 267 p.
Note Formerly CIP.
Contents 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.
Note This title develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union has responded to changing demands from women over the past 40 years, showing that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls. Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years, showing that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls. This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when catch-all parties reach out to new constituencies, they are forced to decrease the involvement of membership to facilitate doctrinal flexibility. In a corporatist catch-all party, however, societal interests are represented within the party organization and policy making is the result of internal party negotiation. Through an investigation of CDU policy making in the issue areas of abortion policy, work-family policy, and participation policy, this book demonstrates that sometimes the CDU mobilizes rather than disempowers membership. An important lesson of this study is that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls.
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781107208803 (e-book)
Author Wiliarty, Sarah Elise, 1968- author.
Subject Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands -- Membership.
Women -- Political activity -- Germany.
Women -- Government policy -- Germany.
Women -- Government policy -- Europe, German-speaking.

Subject Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands -- Membership.
Women -- Political activity -- Germany.
Women -- Government policy -- Germany.
Women -- Government policy -- Europe, German-speaking.
Descript xiii, 267 p.
Note Formerly CIP.
Contents 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.
Note This title develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union has responded to changing demands from women over the past 40 years, showing that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls. Develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years, showing that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls. This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when catch-all parties reach out to new constituencies, they are forced to decrease the involvement of membership to facilitate doctrinal flexibility. In a corporatist catch-all party, however, societal interests are represented within the party organization and policy making is the result of internal party negotiation. Through an investigation of CDU policy making in the issue areas of abortion policy, work-family policy, and participation policy, this book demonstrates that sometimes the CDU mobilizes rather than disempowers membership. An important lesson of this study is that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls.
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781107208803 (e-book)
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