Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen contains articles on political issues dealing with representation and legitimation of the political system. The articles provide a broad overview of the functioning of national and regional parliaments as well as a forum for comparative analysis of international parliaments. One stress is on the parliamentary development of different countries. Indices are provided in every issue which makes the ZParl an outstanding reference book for institutional and comparative political studies. Website: www.zparl.nomos.de
The parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey of May 14, 2023, were considered crucial . Contrary to pollsters’ predictions, the expected swing did not materialize, and the AKP secured an absolute parliamentary majority through a...
Erdoğan’s success in the May 2023 presidential election came as a surprise to many . It masks long-term changes in Turkey’s party system . One constant, however, is the strong support for Erdoğan in many Western European migration societies ....
From 2020 to 2023, Spain was governed for the first time since the Second Republic (1931 – 1939) by a coalition of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) and the left-wing alliance Unidas Podemos (UP) . Despite, or perhaps because of, their...
Italy has a thirty-year tradition of populist parties, starting with the foundation of Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (FI) in 1993 . Since then, the Italian parliament has counted anoth- er three major populist parties – Northern League (Lega...
The parliamentary culture in the three levels of government in Switzerland (federal, can- tonal, and municipal) differs in various ways from the parliamentary customs and practices in other European countries, particularly in Germany and Austria ....
The political system of Switzerland is a decentralized, federalist, multiparty-system in which power-sharing plays an important role . The separation of powers is strong, so that Parlia- ment (Federal Assembly) assumes its functions independently...
The cantonal parliaments were an important organ of the liberal revolution in the 19th century to democratize Switzerland . There was even a parliamentary supremacy in the cen- tury before last . But what has become of this powerful position? For...
Communes form the third tier of the Swiss state structure and are organized differently from a political perspective . Parliaments are one possibility . In some Cantons, parliaments are the mandatory organizational form, while other Cantons lack the...
In the current debate on the causes of “unequal democracy”, the perspectives of members of parliament have hardly been taken into account, despite their expert status and their important role in representative democracy . This article therefore...
Like (almost) all other areas of life, the parliamentary public sphere is also being signifi- cantly changed by digitalization . Many work processes benefit from digital possibilities, but it is precisely the “social” networks that contribute to...
How is parliamentary communication changing as a result of parliaments, committees, and MPs using digital media? There are three important changes . First, parliamentary commu- nication is becoming more pluralized; more parliamentary voices are...