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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 471082
TI  - The CDU and the politics of gender in Germany : bringing women to the party
PY  - 2010
SN  - 9780521765824 052176582X 9780511779442 9780511918452 0511918453 9780511917479 0511917473 0511779445 0511849206 1107208807 1282818163 9786612818165 0511916493 0511914687 0511912889
PB  - Cambridge Cambridge University Press
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality
KW  - Germany
KW  - Women
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Activité politique
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands
KW  - Activité politique
KW  - Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands
KW  - Merkel, Angela
KW  - Human females
KW  - Wimmin
KW  - Woman
KW  - Womon
KW  - Womyn
KW  - Females
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Femininity
KW  - CDU
KW  - Vokietijos Krikščionių Demokratų Sąjunga
KW  - KDS
KW  - Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany : East)
KW  - Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Germany : West)
KW  - Membership.
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Political Science
KW  - CDU (Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands)
KW  - Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
KW  - Christian Democratic Union of Germany
KW  - Christlich-Demokratische Union (Germany)
KW  - KDS (Vokietijos Krikščionių Demokratų Sąjungos)
KW  - Family
KW  - Labour
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Women's organizations
KW  - Book
KW  - Abortion
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:471082
AB  - This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past forty years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when catch-all parties reach out to new constituencies, they are forced to decrease the involvement of membership to facilitate doctrinal flexibility. In a corporatist catch-all party, however, societal interests are represented within the party organization and policy making is the result of internal party negotiation. Through an investigation of CDU policy making in the issue areas of abortion policy, work-family policy, and participation policy, this book demonstrates that sometimes the CDU mobilizes rather than disempowers membership. An important lesson of this study is that a political party need not sacrifice internal democracy and ignore its members in order to succeed at the polls.
ER  -