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Sullivan-Thomsett, Chantal 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8571-2629
(2023)
Alliance 90/The Greens and the 2021 Federal Election:A Disappointing Success Story.
In:
The 2021 German Federal Election.
New Perspectives in German Political Studies
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Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 101-120.
ISBN 978-3-031-38929-0
Abstract
Despite achieving a record 14.8 per cent of vote share at a federal election, the reception of Alliance 90/The Greens’ election result was one of considerable disappointment. Largely due to personal gaffes that questioned the integrity of the first-ever Green Chancellor Candidate Annalena Baerbock, the party yet again failed to translate opinion poll highs to the ballot box. In spite of this disappointing result, the Greens became kingmakers alongside the FDP in coalition negotiations and finally returned to government after 16 years in federal opposition. This chapter argues that the 2021 elections were indeed a success for the Greens in their aim to become the leading force of the left-centre. Firstly, this election campaign successfully implemented the Green rebrand designed by Baerbock and Robert Habeck. Secondly, the Greens used their position as kingmakers to create a progressive coalition, which had a distinctively Green flavour. Finally, if the party can learn from the avoidable mistakes of the 2021 election and Green ministers continue to deliver and be positively received by the public, the next election could see the Greens achieve their goal of becoming the leading force of the left-centre.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: Thank you to Samuel Dent for reading through a draft of this article. This chapter has drawn on research completed during my PhD, which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/L503848/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | annalena baerbock,chancellor candidate,climate change,energy policy,left-centre,sociology and political science,political science and international relations,public administration ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2024 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 01:13 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97762 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-38930-6_6 |
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