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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaji0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Germany at the Polls: The Bundestag Election of 1976, edited by Karl H. Cerny, examines the eighth national election of the Bundestag, the major legislative organ of the German Parliament, since the estab- lishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. An impressive 90.7 percent of the electorate turned out to give a narrow vote of confidence to the government coalition parties, the Social Democratic party (SPD) and the Free Democratic party (FDP). The near victory of the opposition parties, the Christian Democratic Union (CDu) and Christian Social Union (csu), indicates that the Germans are develop- ing a highly competitive party system in a stable, functioning demo- cratic political order. Seven German and three U.S. scholars have contributed to this volume. Gerhard Loewenberg analyzes the development of the German -arty system since World War II. David Conradt examines the insti- tutional framework of the German electoral system and the implica- tions of the 1976 election for the political system. Kurt Sontheimer, Heino Kaack, Werner Kaltefleiter, and Paul Noack contribute chapters on the four major parties. Klaus Sch6nbach and Rudolf Wildenmann discuss the impact of the four nationwide prestige newspapers on public opinion before the election. Max Kaase traces the development of public opinion polling in Germany after World War II and ana- lyzes survey findings for the 1976 campaign. In an appendix Richard Scammon presents statistics on recent German parliamentary elections. Karl H. Cerny, editor of Germany at the Polls, is professor of gov- ernment, chairman of the Department of Government, and chairman of the Committee on Studies in German Public and International Affairs at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Scandinavia at the Polls: Recent Political Trends in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1977), also published by AEI. $4.75 American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036 ISBN 978-0-8447-3310-4 S11144 1 9000> 780844 73310,4 11

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