Conclusions: The Election of 2005 in Context

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Notes

1. There is an extensive body of scholarship on the period and the Grand Coalition 1966–69. For a recent account see R. Schmoeckel and B. Kaiser, Die vergessene Regierung. Die grosse Koalition 1966–1969 und ihre langfristigen Wirkungen (Bonn: Bouvier, 2005).

2. R.J. Dalton and M.P. Wattenberg (eds), Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

3. R.S. Katz and P. Mair, ‘Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy: The Emergence of the Cartel Party’, Party Politics 1/1 (1995), pp.5–28.

4. See, for example, J.F. Adams, S. Merrill, III and B. Grofman, A Unified Theory of Party Competition: A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

5. L. Helms, ‘Amerikanisierung, Britannisierung, Italienisierung? Das Parteiensystem im internationalen Vergleich’, in E. Jesse and R. Sturm (eds), Bilanz der Bundestagswahl 2005: Voraussetzungen – Ergebnisse – Folgen (München: Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit, 2006), p.294.