The other half of Dresden has voted today. Early reports (based on 60 out of 190 precincts) by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for ZDF television indicate that voters learnt a lot about the intricacies of the German personalised proportional representation electoral system, by giving the local CDU candidate, Andreas L�mmel, sufficient “first votes” to win a direct [...]

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Over on Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell - I think somewhat accidently, because I get the impression he believes Germans do *NOT* want to change their distorted labour incentive and tax systems - writes about the fundamental reason for the result of last Sunday’s election.

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Despite appearances, and for all the stalemate it produced, yesterday’s German election has certainly confirmed that Germans are neither too afraid of change, nor too scared of instability. In fact, they chose both.

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Official preliminary final results for today’s election of the German Bundestag, excluding the electoral district 160 in Dresden where a by-election will be held in two weeks, have just been released.

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CDU advertising for SchröderBeing stuck in a traffic jam is probably not the best place to be to blog about the German election. On the other hand, it may well be an excellent metaphor for the result of today’s German elections, which Mrs T sketched below. Hearing the results on the radio, the first thing [...]

With only one night left to sleep before German voters (about 10 million of whom are allegedly still “undecided”) will be asked to decide about the composition of the next Bundestag, and probably, though not necessarily, about the composition of their next government, Spiegel Online’s English language service kindly prepared a contextualised (links to articles [...]

Ok, now that Edward has already mentioned it, I might as well explain in a little more detail what I meant by saying that “on some level, the CDU might be afraid to win.”
Last Saturday evening, strolling through Stockholm�s Gamla Stan, Edward asked me about my gut feeling concerning the outcome of the German election [...]

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we have moved the complete afoe installation to another host over the weekend. As updating nameservers can take up to 72 hours, some readers might experience accessibility problems until Wednesday morning.
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Gentle readers,
due to ongoing heavy server engineering there is an increased possibilty that afoe will not be accessible for a limited amount of time on Sunday, September 4, 2005.