Volume 51 (2020), Edition 2

The state election in Bremen in 2019 was marked by a head-to-head race between SPD and CDU and ended up with a considerably increased turnout and a historical result . The Christian Democrats managed to beat the Social Democrats for the first time...

After a slow beginning, Brandenburg’s election campaign became dominated by the SPD’s and AfD’s struggle to come in first . This contributed considerably to an increase in turnout to 61 .3 percent . Although the SPD won the election with 26 .2...

The peaceful revolution of 1989 began in Saxony . 30 years later, the public eagerly awaited the results of Saxony’s seventh state elections . The AfD was expected to gain a high share of votes after the party there had already been the strongest...

After a campaign, which was both polarized and poor in content, the state election failed to produce a clear majority in the Landtag . The winners of the election were The Left and the AfD, while the parties of the right and left center suffered...

The elections in three East German Länder in 2019 did not only result in significant changes in the proportional vote share but also in severe shifts in constituency results between directly elected deputies . Against this backdrop this article...

The article provides detailed insights into the pre-parliamentary stage of the legislative process for the county-level territorial restructuring in Brandenburg . In the further development of specific aspects of the draft bill, the state government...

Several German “Länder” are currently testing participatory methods to obtain opinions and ideas of citizens on legal proposals . They aim at achieving outputs that are widely accepted by the public, and thus considered to be better . These...

The article briefly presents the history of the municipal assemblies in Germany and, among other things, deals with the change in the Lower Saxony municipal code 1962/63 . At present, there are still municipal assemblies in Schleswig-Holstein . To...

Although the right to form and exercise parliamentary opposition has always been recognized as an essential part of the free democratic basic order, there is widespread disagreement within jurisprudence about the specific status of oppositional...