[JMCE at Keio/Japan] Special Lecture #12 (19052018) > Special Lectures

Title

Changing German Politics and its Implications for Europe: The 2017 Federal Election and After

Speaker

Ryosuke Amiya-Nakada, Department of International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda University

Dates

19 May 2018

Venue

4F Conference room, South bldg., Mita Campus, Keio University

Number of

Direct Participants

(researchers and students from your institution)

11

Number of

Indirect Participants

(other audiences like media or residents in your region)

3

Outlines

(up to 5 points)

-The 2017 Federal Election and after tells us that system of

connecting by symbols the politics and the society contributed in the past to strengthening of trust in democracy but that it does not

work like that any more.

-Former forms of organized political parties are not sustainable any

More even in Europe.

-Since this is not the result of incapacity of or negligence by

politicians, it is not sufficient to criticize political parties by

demanding that they should be reinforced or they should indicate

coherent ideologies.

-The European democracies have always been fruits of sequences of

experiments.

-It is better not to seek for some universally ideal recipe but to

discuss “democratization” or “democratic reform” under certain

conditions.

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