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In the year 1998, for the first time in postwar German history, a German federal government was voted out of office, and a Red-Green coalition assumed power. The new government not only raised hopes for rapid and far-reaching reforms but it also stressed that the character of political leadership in Germany had to change and proclaimed that broad societal and political consensus would be one of the Red-Green coalition’s outstanding priorities for enacting a “new type of innovative governing style.” Decisions would be arrived at by exercising “consensus leadership” that would reflect the “general will.”
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Kropp, S. (2004). Gerhard Schröder as “Coordination Chancellor”: The Impact of Institutions and Arenas on the Chancellor’s Style of Governance. In: Reutter, W. (eds) Germany on the Road to “Normalcy”: Policies and Politics of the Red-Green Federal Government (1998–2002). Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981479_4
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