Germany’s Vote for a “New Middle”

Russell J. Dalton is a professor of political science at the University of California at Irvine. His books include Germans Divided: The 1994 Bundestag Elections and the Evolution of the German Party System (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1996). This article draws on the author’s “A Celebration of Democracy: The 1998 Bundestagswahl,” German Politics and Society, Winter 1999.