Academic Scientific JournalsGerman Green Party: the evolution of political agenda
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https://doi.org/10.26881/jpgs.2020.2.06Keywords:
German Green Party, Die Grünen, The Greens, Germany, Bundestag electionsAbstract
The purpose of the article is to present the evolution of the political agenda of the German Green Party (Die Grünen) between 1980 (establishment of the party, its first program manifesto – Das Bundesprogramm) and 2017 (recent German federal elections program – Zukunft Wird aus Mut Gemacht. Bundestagswahlprogramm). The research was conducted on the basis of the literature and the comparison of the two mentioned program manifestos. The hypothesis of the work is that the successes of the Greens in West Germany mainly result from the ideological, program, and strategic reorientation of the party that took place at the turn of 1980s and 1990s.
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