Understanding the performance of the Left Party (die Linke) in Western Germany : a comparative evaluation of cartel and social cleavage theories as explanatory frameworks
In 2007 Germany’s Left Party (DIE LINKE) won its first seats in the regional parliament of a western federal state, Bremen. This success contrasted with the failure of its predecessor, the PDS, to establish an electoral base beyond the eastern states. Today the Left Party is represented in eastern a...
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1289/1/Lawson-LastValerie_PhD%20THESIS%20FINAL.pdf |