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
On 26 September 2021, the administration of the city state of Berlin had to cope with the election of the state’s House of Representatives, the election of the Bundestag and a referendum . Preparing for all of them together amounted to a large...
The formal rules of parliamentary party groups (PPGs), their standing orders or rules of procedure have received scant attention in political science even though they have implications beyond the groups themselves . The project SOPiP (Standing...
In the Bundestag and in the state parliaments, parliamentary party groups (PPGs) have set up working groups that more or less mirror parliamentary committees and government departments . They serve the purpose to prepare policy positions; hence,...
Appointing vice presidents to the German state parliaments, as well as to the Bundestag, has come under greater public attention since the AfD has gained parliamentary representation . The AfD has often complained that it is prevented from...
Demands for allowing audio and visual recordings during sessions of parliamentary inquiry committees to ensure better public information have been brought forward not only since the introduction of legislation on these commission some 20 years ago ....
For several decades, a juridification process of the work of the intelligence and secret services has been taking place in all Western democracies . During the mid-1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany, under a social-liberal coalition, began to...
Both the German Bundestag and Baden-Württemberg’s State Parliament offer the opportunity to the Members of Parliament to interpose questions to the speaker . It is not uncommon to address such questions to members of the government, whose right...
Political science has shown little interest in the office of the Federal President, and the legislative processes that deal with the office itself have not been considered at all . And yet they are particularly interesting from a...
For the first time in more than 60 years, in 2021 the SSW won a seat in the Bundestag again . The SSW is the political party of the Danish minority and the national Frisians and is exempt from the five per cent threshold other parties are subjected...
The German voting advice application “Wahl-Kompass” allows the positioning of political parties in a political landscape with the two dimensions “conservative-traditional versus progressive ecological” and “redistribution versus personal...
Since the early 1960s scholars have tried to figure out how to explain coalition building . Meanwhile the approaches broadened from the classic office and policy seeking theory to more elaborated theories that include more factors and variables ....
Parallel to the rise of the Fridays-For-Future-movement in 2018, the German party “Alliance 90/The Greens” was swept up in a wave of success . The influx of members and the electoral successes achieved are attributed to the professional...
Inquiry committees are the opposition’s sharpest sword in the German Bundestag . In con- trast to the European Parliament, the U .S . Congress, and other international examples, however, TV or Internet transmissions of witness hearings are not...
Taking a proposal of a parliamentary group in the Landtag of the Saarland as a starting point, the paper discusses pros and cons as well as legal options to criminalize bribery in the context of party meetings that select candidates for general...