Abstract
This article aims to main shifts of German party system since 1990 with a specific emphasis on Bundestag elections 2017. The main development and changes that can be explicitly traced in the survey period will be described here.
An important question is how German party system has modified not only during last years but primarily after recent elections. In the first part are analysed main starting points related to bases of German party system, as well as the Bundestag elections overview.
The second part of analysis focuses on a party system comparative indicators and its comparison. It primarily aspires to explain the main new trends that determine the German party system.
It is possible to find several crucial points in the German party system development. Overall, the main finding is that German party system detected new dispositions like (a) fragmentation, polarisation and segmentation, (b) different hegemons role and (c) programmatic shifts after 2017 elections.
The German party system at the federal level is accustomed to the fact that representatives of six political parties met for the first time in the deputies' seats. It is a big deal as well as the fact that the third most powerful subject became the right-populist Alternative for Germany.