The tipping point: The 2005 election and the deconsolidation of the German party system?

Launching The Grand Coalition: The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 13-28

  Conradt, David P ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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