Reasons for the Decline

Writing about the political decline of the FDP, one certainly has to investigate the reasons for it.
Just to briefly sum them up, the reasons inter alia are:


- no agreement within the coalition on several aspects (tax policy, health care, military service...)

- immature behavior of Guido Westerwelle
--> chairman of party vs secretary of state
--> "late Roman decadence", "social freeloaders"

- political turbulence in the middle classes
Rudzio: "fluctuation of voters & pluralism of interests"
--> Grüne reached a record level of 18%

- lack of decisiveness on the part of Merkel
--> no strict guidance as one would imagine it of a chancellor
--> financial crisis, Greece in debt


These are just some of the reasons, others will follow, but I am still in the process of developing and structuring ;)


See this article for background information:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/pers-j18.shtml

The Rise and Fall of the FDP

Introduction

This essay deals with the rise and fall of the German Free Democratic Party in since the Bundestag election of 2009. A special focus will be put on the FDP itself considering its political power according to the percentage points especially after the Landtag election 2010 in North-rhine-Westphalia. The Landtag election took place on May 9th, 2010 and the FDP came off badly compared to the Bundestag election men-tioned above. Guido Westerwelle, party leader of the FDP since 2001, hoped for "10 % plus X". This shows the transformation from a party being given governmental strength into a skeleton trying to capture the five-percent threshold. Another point of interest will be put on the chair-man of the FDP himself and to what extent he might be responsible for the decline of votes. As diversity is the main topic of this essay, I try to cover as many fields of diversity in relation to the FDP and the German politics in general as possible.

PRESELECTION RESTART... DOWNLOAD COMPLETED ... INSTALLATION DONE

I am taking blogging up again - why? Only because I have to? No, that is not the only reason. I somehow really missed it. I think Sveta could write a book about it.

Of course the main topic is "Presidential Elections" again, but with a slightly different perspective. It is shifted to a German view and the blog will mainly function as a platform to publish my essay on the FDP. Since I am taking this semester´s seminar for Vertiefung Heterogenität and have to write an essay on a topic somehow related to Diversity, I thought it would be a nice idea to publish passages of the essay bit by bit.

I will keep you guys up-2-date about the most recent developments concerning the essay.

Best!