This new issue contains the following articles:

The Merger of the PDS and WASG: From Eastern German Regional Party to National Radical Left Party? p. 205
Authors: Jonathan Olsen
DOI: 10.1080/09644000701414206
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0964-4008&volume=16&issue=2&spage=205&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,emailpe=new_issue_alert,email

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Merkel's CDU/CSU and the Politics of Welfare State Reform p. 222
Authors: Clay Clemens
DOI: 10.1080/09644000701363023
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0964-4008&volume=16&issue=2&spage=222&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,emailpe=new_issue_alert,email

Economic Linkage and Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik : The Case of the Warsaw Treaty p. 247
Authors: Randall Newnham
DOI: 10.1080/09644000701358916
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An Absolute Majority for the SPD as an Unintended Consequence? The Land Election in Rhineland-Palatinate 2006 p. 264
Authors: Kai Arzheimer; Harald Schoen
DOI: 10.1080/09644000701358858
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0964-4008&volume=16&issue=2&spage=264&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,emailpe=new_issue_alert,email

How Adenauer Lost Power: Understanding Leadership Rivalry and Succession Conflict in Political Parties p. 273
Authors: Paul 't. Hart
DOI: 10.1080/09644000701358932
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0964-4008&volume=16&issue=2&spage=273&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,emailpe=new_issue_alert,email

Recent Education Policy and School Reform in Bavaria: A Critical Overview p. 292
Authors: Ralph Rotte; Ursula Rotte
DOI: 10.1080/09644000701358890
Link: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0964-4008&volume=16&issue=2&spage=292&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,emailpe=new_issue_alert,email

The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics - Special Issue on Democratic Revolution in Ukraine
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