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Article: Much ado about nothing? Political representation policies and the influence of women parliamentarians in Germany.
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- The Review of Policy Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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INTRODUCTION
On September the 26, 2002, the elections for the German Bundestag (the lower house of parliament) gave the Red-Green coalition government led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, from the Social Democrats, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer, from the Greens, a second chance. Historically, it was the narrowest victory of any ruling coalition in Germany, with the Social Democrats and the Greens only gaining a slight majority of 11 seats in the Bundestag over the Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Socialists of Bavaria (CSU), and the Liberals (FDP). The Greens first came to power with the Social Democrats in 1998. Germany had for the ...