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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah Elise Wiliarty is Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She received her BA from Harvard University and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on European politics, women in politics, political parties, energy policy in Europe, and political leadership. She is the author of The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany: Bringing Women to the Party (2010). Her research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Wesleyan University. She has published several articles and book chapters including ‘Gender as a Modernising Force in the German CDU’ (German Politics, 2013), ‘Nuclear Power in Germany and France’ (Polity 2013), ‘Conservative Women in Germany and Japan’ (with Alisa Gaunder, 2014). Her most recent project examines Angela Merkel’s leadership.
Notes
1 For more on the CSU in particular, see Wagemann (Citation2017).
2 For more information on recent developments in the CDU/CSU, see Green and Turner (Citation2015) and Clemens (Citation2009).
3 See Poguntke (Citation2014) and Lees (Citation2012) on the fragmentation of the German party system and the resulting implications for coalition formation.