The Wild, Wild East: Why the DVU Doesn't Matter and Why the NPD Does

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 122-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Art
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
German Politics ◽  
New Development

German politicians, journalists, and analysts are predicting that the DVU's and the NPD's tenure in state parliaments will be brief. Referring to the NPD, Wolfgang Bosbach of the CDU claimed that the party would quickly lose its appeal because its politicians were "generally lazy, not very intelligent and therefore ineffective in parliament." Similar opinions have been voiced about the DVU. In this article, I argue that, while the DVU is likely to remain a marginal player in German politics, the NPD's electoral breakthrough represents a major new development. Over the last decade, the NPD has evolved into a highly organized social movement in eastern Germany. The fact that it can now mobilize portions of the eastern electorate strongly suggests that it has become a political force as well.

The German Communist Party

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Marcuse
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Political System ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Future Role ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Systematic Program

This chapter focuses on the Communist Party of Germany. Prior to 1933, the German Communist Party was an important force in the German political system and one of the three largest political parties. The report states that since its dissolution in 1933 by the Nazis, the party has continued to exist, both inside and outside Germany. At present, the German Communist Party is the only pre-1933 party which has formulated a systematic program and developed tactics to exploit the conditions which it anticipates will exist in Germany. The chapter considers the historical position of the German Communist Party in German politics, its present strength, and the plans by which it hopes to become a political force in post-war Germany. It also discusses the impact of the Free German movement on both the current policy and the future of the party. Finally, it reflects on the possible future role of the Communist Party in Germany.

scholarly journals From the Editors

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. vi
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This theme issue of German Politics and Society, “Eastern GermanyTen Years After Unification,” presents five key papers first presentedat a conference organized by Thomas Ertman at the Center for EuropeanStudies at Harvard University in June 1999. We are pleased topresent this reworked collection of articles that, under Ertman’s abledirection, speaks to the central concerns of the former East Germany’sintegration into the new Federal Republic. Ertman’s introductioncontextualizes these articles in terms of their thematic content andmethodological approaches.

Social Movements, Party Organization, and Populism: Insights from the Bolivian MAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (03) ◽  
pp. 19-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Anria
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Hybrid Organization ◽  
Rural And Urban

Abstract The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) emerged in Bolivia’s Chapare region in the 1990s. Born of a rural social movement of coca growers, it spread to the cities and became the country’s dominant political force as its leader, Evo Morales, was elected to the presidency in 2005. This article argues that the MAS is a hybrid organization whose electoral success has been contingent on the construction of a strong rural-urban coalition, built on the basis of different linkages between the MAS and organized popular constituencies in rural and urban areas. Whereas the MAS’s rural origins gave rise to grassroots control over the leadership, its expansion to urban areas has fostered the emergence of top-down mobilization strategies. The analysis also reveals how much popular sectors allied with the MAS have pressured the Morales government from below and held it accountable to societal demands.

scholarly journals Toniemy w czerwonych buraczkach, zatykając dziury w żelaznej kurtynie”. Punkowa Lublana w późnych latach siedemdziesiątych i wczesnych osiemdziesiątych

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Oskar Mulej
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Alternative Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

In this article, the Slovenian author merges the perspectives of the history of popular culture and of the history of social movements. At the turn of the 1970s/1980s, the little town of Ljubljana, the capital of the communist-ruled Slovenia, became the centre of Yugoslavian alternative culture, which run parallel to the official culture but was completely independent from it. Alternative culture constituted a protest against the realities of the last years of Josip Broz Tito’s rule. As such, it provoked hostile reactions of the state. The rulers of Yugoslavia did not take into account the fact that the punks only constituted a kind of “cultural opposition”, and not a viable political force. The punk culture was an attempt to create a new mode of expression and a new lifestyle, and its power as an inspiration in Europe, including Poland, was unprecedented. As a sui generis social movement, the punk paved the way for the emergence of civil society.

scholarly journals Związki między koncentracją, kumulacją i monopolizacją władzy. Analiza modelowa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (55) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Mirosław Karwat
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Permanent Effect ◽  
The Will

The concentration of powerin onestate(or: party, church,social movement) decision-making centre makes it possible to cumulate power. One kind of institution join the several types and areas of power (e.g. subordination of the legislative and judicial authorities to the will and disposition oftheexecutive, conversion of parliament and orchards, public prosecutor’s office into tools of government, governing party). The permanent effect of such changes may bethe monopolisation of the authorities – theexclusive practical ability to govern for a given political force and the process of immortalisation,reproductionofsuch a monopoly

scholarly journals Sheikhs and the City

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Are John Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
Electoral Defeat ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
The City

This article examines the rise and fall of the “Assir movement,” a neo-Salafist campaign led by a charismatic local sheikh who, after years of community activism, rose to prominence in the wake of the Syrian uprising (2011–present) protesting the Sunnis’ political decline and disempowerment. To understand the Assir movement’s popular appeal, it is necessary to examine the pathways of contention in specific urban contexts and the extension of Salafism to secondary cities such as Sidon, where Sheikh Ahmad Assir’s neo-Salafism became a political force and can be classified as a new social movement. Neo-Salafism combines populism with sectarianism, and this accounts for its widespread support after 2011, when the Syrian uprising increased Sunni-Shia tensions and shifted the locus of contentious politics from the capital, Beirut, to Sidon, a Sunni-majority city and the seat of the Assir movement. Ultimately, this led to an armed confrontation that crushed the movement, eroded its popular support, and was followed by an electoral defeat in which local elites reasserted control.

Die Bewegung für Klimagerechtigkeit und Energiedemokratie in Deutschland.

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (184) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Sander
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
Historical Materialist

This article argues that social movement research must be renewed by a historical-materialist perspective to be able to understand the emergence and effects of the relatively new climate justice movement in Germany. The previous research on NGOs and social movements in climate politics is presented and the recent development of the climate justice movement in Germany is illustrated. In a final step two cases of climate movement campaigns are explained by means of the historical-materialist movement analysis proposed by the author.

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