Angela Merkel and the Unfulfilled Promise of Chancellor Democracy

Ludger Helms is a professor of political science and chair of comparative politics at the University of Innsbruck. His books include Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and an edited volume, Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies (Routledge, 2008).