My group is doing our presentation on an overveiw of all the German parties. We started by collecting all of eachother's contact information. At the end of class last week, we all got together to make sure we knew who was in which group. Right away I could tell that the group leader was going to be Kari Anderson. She wasn't the only one, though, that seemed to want to take initiative. Many of the students in our group wanted to make sure that our project was done on time and in an efficient manner. She was the most proactive about getting everyone's contact information to make sure we could all keep in contact. The majority of the work done by our group was individual. Being that it was a large group, we did not have much time where we could all meet up. I don't think that this affected our work in a negative way, as with technology these days you don't really need to be in the same room physically to work together. We sent our information to Kari on google docs, where she and maybe some others put our data together and formed a powerpoint. The information that we collected is fairly basic for each party, but as it explains in our group title, "overveiw," I think that is the point. I focused on looking up information about current political news such as the current leaders and parties challenging each other for the next elections in 2013. I tried to look up very current news on political polls and elections going on in Germany. The most helpful sites that I found were BBC and CNBC.com. As always, wikipedia had plenty of information that was useful. I feel that the party that I would support if I were a german would be the current leading CDU. That parties seems to reflect the veiws of the party that I endorse here in the U.S. I think it is very interesting that Germany follows a Coalition government, which means multiple parties lead the country together. I think that this form of federal government would be the most equal way to govern a country, but not necessarily as efficient as one party. I wonder what the U.S. would be like if we adopted such a type of government. It seems, though, that German politics is kind of a mess with all of the different parties. It would be hard to chose just one party to endorse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Germany
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