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 Speaker of the House of Representatives plays a key role in the U.S. political system; their decisions and leadership styles have far-reaching impacts on national politics. However, conflicts within the Republican Party have damaged this office...
The 2024 U.S. elections did not only produce with Donald Trump a new (and also old) president, at the same time the entire House of Representatives as well as a third of the Senate were re-elected. The Republicans managed to keep their thin majority...
The 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a historic turning point: Donald Trump became the first president since Grover Cleveland to return to the White House after an electoral defeat. Winning 312 to 226 electoral votes and 49.8 percent of the...
Around 1970, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in numerous countries in the western world. However, previous studies dedicated to the voting age were limited to a national framework of analysis and neglected international developments. Using...
With Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, his brand of nationalist populism has firmly established itself as the ideological and organizational guiding force of the Republican Party. Internal critics have been sidelined, Congress is loyal,...
Donald Trump not only won a convincing victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, but also managed to attract a large number of voters outside the Republican core electorate. The article discusses this development with a special focus on...
The second Trump Administration is proving tumultuous for the German-American relationship. Ever-changing U.S. policies on trade, tariffs, taxes, defense, as well as on conflicts like Russia-Ukraine have already weakened the Transatlantic...
Amid a constitutional crisis caused by the sitting President’s self-coup attempt—abuse of martial law power and mobilization of military troops—in December 2024, the Korean parliament, the National Assembly, played a key role in swiftly...
Together with the banning of political parties and the destruction of parliamentarism, National Socialism transformed the referendum, ostensibly to strengthen the people, into an instrument of approval democracy without the opportunity for...