Issues: Domestic Policy, Society • Regions: Germany • Type: Analysis • Projects: The 2021 Bundestag Election
Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Texas Woman’s University. He is the author of four books and has written widely on a variety of political parties in Germany, including the Linke, in such journals as German Politics and Society and German Politics.
The Left Party in Superwahljahr 2021
If recent history is any guide, the 2021 German federal election will once again raise the question of whether the Left Party’s (Die Linke) cup is half-empty or half-full. As …
The Linke’s Search for Leadership – and Direction
Otto von Bismarck is once reported to have said “Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd.” So it is with any leader …
