Regionalist Parties and the Mobilization of Territorial Difference in Germany

AbstractAnalysis of political regionalism and regionalist parties has traditionally neglected the case of Germany. We argue that this is a curious ommission. This article looks to redress this balance by applying frameworks created for understanding the determinants of regionalist party success to the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and the eastern Germany Party of Democratic Socialism (1990–2005, PDS). Although very different in terms of their politics, both parties have been successful as they have followed strategies and tactics evident in the broader regionalist parties' literature. This article therefore deepens our knowledge of regionalism in Germany, while also testing regionalist literatures in a new country-context.

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Bat Community Responses to Structural Habitat Complexity Resulting from Management Practices Within Different Land Use Types — A Case Study from North-Eastern Germany

Acta Chiropterologica ◽

10.3161/15081109acc2018.20.2.010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 387 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nicole Starik ◽

Thomas Göttert ◽

Emanuel Heitlinger ◽

Ulrich Zeller

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Habitat Complexity ◽

Management Practices ◽

Community Responses ◽

Eastern Germany ◽

Land Use Types ◽

North Eastern ◽

Structural Habitat

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Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism.Evelyne Huber Stephens , John D. Stephens

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/228770 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 93 (2) ◽

pp. 485-487

Author(s):

Mauricio A. Font

Keyword(s):

Social Transformation ◽

The Political ◽

Political Movement ◽

Democratic Socialism

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Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism: The Storm Troopers in Eastern Germany, 1925-1934. Richard Bessel

The Journal of Modern History ◽

10.1086/242936 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 776-778

Author(s):

Rudy Koshar

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Eastern Germany

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Nearly Identical Plasmids Encoding VIM-1 and Mercury Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae from North-Eastern Germany

Microorganisms ◽

10.3390/microorganisms9071345 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 1345

Author(s):

Stefan E. Heiden ◽

Katharina Sydow ◽

Stephan Schaefer ◽

Ingo Klempien ◽

Veronika Balau ◽

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Keyword(s):

Resistance Gene ◽

Bacterial Species ◽

Genomic Analysis ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Multidrug Resistant ◽

Mercury Resistance ◽

Major Public Health Problem ◽

Eastern Germany ◽

North Eastern ◽

Resistance Plasmids

The emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae limits therapeutic options and presents a major public health problem. Resistances to carbapenems are mostly conveyed by metallo-beta-lactamases (MBL) including VIM, which are often encoded on resistance plasmids. We characterized four VIM-positive isolates that were obtained as part of a routine diagnostic screening from two laboratories in north-eastern Germany between June and August 2020. Whole-genome sequencing was performed to address (a) phylogenetic properties, (b) plasmid content, and (c) resistance gene carriage. In addition, we performed phenotypic antibiotic and mercury resistance analyses. The genomic analysis revealed three different bacterial species including C. freundii, E. coli and K. oxytoca with four different sequence types. All isolates were geno- and phenotypically multidrug-resistant (MDR) and the phenotypic profile was explained by the underlying resistance gene content. Three isolates of four carried nearly identical VIM-1-resistance plasmids, which in addition encoded a mercury resistance operon and showed some similarity to two publicly available plasmid sequences from sources other than the two laboratories above. Our results highlight the circulation of a nearly identical IncN-type VIM-1-resistance plasmid in different Enterobacteriaceae in north-eastern Germany.

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The possibility of democratic socialism in Habermas

European Journal of Social Theory ◽

10.1177/1368431020986892 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 136843102098689

Author(s):

Pedro A. Teixeira

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Deliberative Democracy ◽

Economic Organization ◽

Democratic Socialism ◽

Theory Of Justice ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Political Economic ◽

Theory Of Democracy ◽

Economic Regime ◽

The Ideal

In keeping with the radical openness of his theory of democracy, Habermas avoided pre-determining the ideal mode of economic organization for his favoured model of deliberative democracy. Instead of attempting a full-blown derivation, in this article, I propose adapting the Rawlsian method of comparing different political–economic regimes as candidate applications of his theory of justice to Habermas’s theory of deliberative democracy. Although both theorists are seen as endorsing liberal democratic world views, from the perspective of political economy, the corollary of their conceptions of democracy would arguably veer elsewhere: in Rawls’s case, into the territory of property-owning democracy or democratic socialism, and in Habermas’s, into any political–economic regime which guarantees the real exercise of full political and discursive liberties against the background of legitimate lawmaking. The ultimate aim of this article is to discuss whether a concrete conception of democratic socialism, if any, is compatible with Habermas’s theory of deliberative democracy.

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