Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia
Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia
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安德斯·布雷维克和伊斯兰恐惧症的兴起
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2015
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Mark Emmerson
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Mark Emmerson
demand of the Court, sought to attain perfect proportional representation. The result was 33 more members of parliament than the base figure of 598 and in consequence a considerable burden on public finances. As for the Bundesrat, Iris Reus and Reimut Zohlnhöfer point out that, despite the coalition losing its majority there in 2010, reforms to the federal systemmean that the upper house no longer has as much power to veto legislation. The second part of the volume is devoted to policy areas. In the 12 chapters, the activities of nearly all ministries are covered with the exceptions of agriculture, transport and overseas aid, which receive little or scant attention. They provide a wide-ranging and thorough overview of the policies pursued. Some are critical; Annette Henninger and Angelika von Wahl are clearly no friends of the CSU’s family policy outlined above, despite the question mark in their title ‘Three steps forward and two back?’ In his article on foreign policy Christopher Daase refers to criticisms made of the Federal Government, not least over the failure to intervene militarily in Libya. On the other hand, he suggests, with some justification, that the UNO mission to Libya has not brought the desired results. Unsurprisingly, a separate chapter is devoted to European policy. Frank Wendler points out that the European debate has been less polarised in Germany than elsewhere, since the policies adopted to deal with the euro crisis have been generally accepted as in the national interest and because the solutions proposed are in keeping with the German financial and economic model. Whether these solutions are good for other economies is a different issue. This volume has undoubtedly much to recommend it. It deserves to be seen as a standard work of reference for anyone interested not just in the seventeenth electoral period in the history of the Federal Republic but also German politics in general. The contributors show almost without exception an excellent grasp of their subjects and write in as straightforward a manner as possible given the complexities of the topics, although certain Anglicisms might cause some German readers to stumble. The final chapter by the co-editor Zohlnhöfer rounds things off in a most useful way. He points out that, despite the supposed institutional barriers, the Federal Government was able to make reforms, some of which were unexpected given the nature of the coalition, for example the abolition of conscription, something traditionally favoured by the Christian Democrats, and the extension of minimum wage agreements to a variety of areas, ideologically anathema to the FDP. His conclusion is that there was no overarching political project, a comment that he does not regard as a criticism. Many outsiders might go further and suggest that the element of continuity in German politics—only in 1998 has there been a change of government without one previous coalition party remaining in office—has been a strength, compared with the adversarial style found elsewhere.