英文摘要 |
From 2005 to 2009 Merkel built her grand coalition, the second grand coalition in the history of the FRG. Her government parties (Union party (CDU+CSU)+SPD) had around 73% of the seats in the German Bundestag. Under this hegemonic coalition structure some questions are worth discussing, such as whether the opposition played no check and balance role, were the relations between the opposition and the government tense or did they fight each other, and were the small parties suppressed? In fact, the previous phenomena did not appear. Conversely, the government parties declined in size, lost many votes, and the opposition developed stark.By using Kaare Strøm's theory of the behavior of competition parties, this paper discusses the parties' interactions in parliament (Bundestag and Bundesrat) and in federal offices (Federal president and Federal chancellor). The research shows there was intensity on the party leaders, and the policy position and coalition alternatives of local government s were key in impacting the party's goals. During this period, office-seeking was the common goal for all federal parties. This research includes several points: opposition and government parties had a certain degree of cooperation in the legislative processes, but the opposition played a good role to control the government. For office-seeking besides Link, parties, regardless of opposition or in power, built alliances on both the right and left and strived for the federal president and coalition. So the character of the parties' relations of Merkel's grand coalition is very unusual, but German democracy is more diverse and party accountability can also be implemented. |