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- Title
Die bayerische Landtagswahl vom 28. September 2008: Betriebsunfall oder Ende eines Mythos?
- Authors
Schultze, Rainer-Olaf; von Jan Grasnick, Mitarbeit
- Abstract
On September 28, 2008, the governing Christian Social Union (CSU) for the first time in their history lost its commanding two-thirds majority in the Bavarian state parliament. Its share of the popular vote was reduced to 43.4 per cent (a loss of 17.3 percentage points). The landslide loss had far reaching consequences: It changed the structure of the party system, caused the CSU to replace its leadership, and - lacking a parliamentary majority in the legislature - the party was forced to enter into a coalition with the liberal Free Democratic Party and to adept to the logic of coalition government for the first time in forty-six years. Various short term political events and long term structural social changes are analyzed which led to the seminal defeat of the CSU and ended its far ranging hegemony as Bavaria's "natural" governing party.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ELECTIONS; LEGISLATIVE bodies; CHRISTLICH-Soziale Union; VOTING; POLITICAL parties; COALITIONS; FREIE Demokratische Partei (Political party : Germany); SOCIAL change
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2009, Vol 40, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0340-1758
- Publication type
Article