Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic

Since 2005, Angela Merkel has transformed not only the way Germans see themselves but also the way that politicians worldwide, male and female, perceive women in power. The East German daughter of a Protestant pastor, this physicist-turned-politician has deployed her life experiences to cultivate a unique set of leadership skills. Her pragmatic, data-driven, and future-oriented approach to politics - grounded in a commitment to democratic pluralism, human rights, and personal responsibility - has produced extraordinary paradigm shifts in many national policies in the wake of major crises. As the first English-language scholarly book to provide an in-depth account of her career and influence, Becoming Madam Chancellor examines Merkel's achievements across six key policy domains, contextualizes these within broader German history before and after reunification, and uncovers the personal and political factors that have contributed to Chancellor Merkel's hard-earned status as the world's most powerful woman.

Author: Joyce Marie Mushaben
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/07/2017
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.43h x 6.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781108417730

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2018

About the Author
Mushaben, Joyce Marie: - Joyce Marie Mushaben is Professor of Global Studies and the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She has spent seventeen years living in Germany, researching East-West identities, EU policies, citizenship, migration and asylum reforms, women's leadership, social movements, and welfare states. Mushaben has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.