Volume 53 (2022), Edition 3

In April 2022, the electoral reform commission, implemented by the Bundestag, started to work. Tue commission’s essential task is to develop proposals suited to prevent the Bundes- tag’s augmentation. Tue parties CDU and CSU have suggested...

Tuis article extends the existing documentation of interest group activities in the commit- tees of the German Bundestag for the 18th election period. Tue documentation goes beyond previous ones by including sub-committees and taking into account...

Tue SPD fully lived up to its role as favorite and won the Saarland state election in March 2022 with an absolute majority of the seats in the state parliament. As has often been the case in recent state elections, the popularity of top candidates...

Following the 2017 state election, Schleswig-Holstein had been governed by a stable coalition of the CDU, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, and the FDP, known as “Jamaica” coalition. However, what the state parliament would look like after the elections...

Tue 2022 state election in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) was dominated by problems that lay beyond the reach of state politics: the climate crisis, Covid-19, the war in Eastern Europe, and inflation rates. Regarding state issues, many voters rated...

Representative surveys among local councilors in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Lower Saxony showed the enormous effect the Covid-19 pandemic had on local politics as well as the demand for more alternative digital participatory instruments....

President Emmanuel Macron hesitated about his renewed presidential candidacy. According to the polls, an election victory in the second round against his fiercest rival, the far-right Marine Le Pen, was by no means certain. Tue election campaign was...

Tue 2022 legislative elections in France saw a new political player: NUPES, who won about a fourth of the National Assembly seats. Tuis ad hoc alliance of the four main parties of the left-wing political spectrum (socialists, greens, communists,...

For decades, political parties have accompanied and pushed for the integration of the European Union. Now, it is time for the next step: pan-European parties. Although they do not exist yet they could represent the direct strand of legitimacy best...

Not even two years after his electoral victory, US President Joe Biden finds himself in a rather dire position. While irritated allies and the humiliating Taliban takeover of Afghanistan taint his foreign policy record, his domestic agenda has been...

Between July 4th, 2021 and July 4th, 2022, a Constitutional Convention met in Santiago de Chile to draft a new constitution for the Republic of Chile. Tue convening of this body was preceded by social unrest in October 2019, which fundamentally...