Understanding the Transformation of Germany’s CDU (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Understanding the Transformation of the CDU 2. Down but Not Out: A Comparison of Germany’s CDU/CSU with Christian Democratic Parties in Austria, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands 3. Societal Transformation and Programmatic Change in the CDU 4. Christian Democracy is Dead; Long Live the Union Parties: Explaining CDU/CSU Dominance within the German Party System 5. The Genetic Origin of the CDU and its Developmental Path to a Catch-All Party6. Is the CSU Still a Volkspartei? 7. The CDU and Party Organisational Change 8. The Federal Character of the CDU 9. The Programmatic Development of CDU and CSU since Reunification: Incentives and Constraints for Changing Policy Positions in the German Multi-Level System 10. Gender as a Modernising Force in the German CDU11. Beyond Christian Democracy? Welfare State Politics and Policy in a Changing CDU 12. Concluding Remarks: The CDU ? Revisiting the Elephant