Dominic Schwickert

Executive Director of Das Progressive Zentrum

Dominic Schwickert has been Executive Director of Das Progressive Zentrum since 2012. He has proven expertise in the field of political and strategic consulting. Dominic worked i.a. for Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Bertelsmann Stiftung, IFOK GmbH, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, German Bundestag as well as for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. He was John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University in autumn 2017.

Publications

The Majority is Convinced: New German Administration is Future-Oriented

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SPD, Greens and FDP have stepped up as a Future-Oriented coalition

Shaping Progress

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Position Paper | 2019

News

Hope Comes from Honesty: How Andy Burnham Seeks to Rediscover Political Agency

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Andy Burnham’s speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool was a masterclass in modern political communication: personal, self-critical, willing to confront conflict. Above all, it had a clear sense of direction. But its most interesting core lies deeper: in the reinterpretation of a populist promise.
zwei Männer, die auf weißen Fliesen stehen

Learning from Shortcomings

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It would mean trivializing the current situation to interpret the crisis facing the SPD and the Greens primarily as a weakness specific to those two parties. In nearly all Western democracies, center-left parties are under pressure, as are center-right parties. What is eroding is not a type of party, but a political model.

The backlash to the backlash? From resisting the new right to rebuilding progressive appeal

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Within an instance of his second tenure Donald Trump embodied a smashing backlash against the liberal, rules-based international order.  What we may be watching now is the backlash to the backlash.

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