Anfang Januar 2026 ist ein neuer Beitrag von Thorsten Faas und Tristan Klingelhöfer erschienen: „Same old, same old? The return of the (not so) Grand Coalition after the 2025 German Bundestag election.” Darin untersuchen die Autoren Hintergründe und Folgen der Regierungsbildung nach der Bundestagswahl 2025.

Abstract:

After the implosion of the traffic-light coalition in the face of the consequences of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and budgetary limitations that exacerbated its internal contradictions, Germany experienced a short but harsh election campaign. Economic and fiscal policy were quickly overshad­owed by the issue of immigration (yet again) and the related question of how hermetic the cordon sanitaire should be. The elections allowed for the return of the classic Grand Coalition format (Christian Democrats and Social Democrats) but its current edition is seemingly quite different, both in size and in function­ing. Contrary to some campaign proclamations, the new government will have to continue working with the Greens (and sometimes also the Socialists) if it wants to get many kinds of legislation done given the set-up of the political system. All the while, the spectre of cooperation between Christian Democrats and the populist radical right looms large.

Thorsten Faas, Tristan Klingelhöfer: Same old, same old? The return of the (not so) Grand Coalition after the 2025 German Bundestag election, in: West European Politics, 2026, S. 1-17, DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2025.2600960

Der Beitrag ist auf der Verlags-Website verfügbar.