Volume 47 (2016), Edition 3

In the campaigns prior to the election in Hesse in 2013 the expansion of the Frankfurt Airport was one of the dominating issues. It was also considered to be the main obstacle for the then emerging option of a coalition of the CDU and the Greens in...

The article analyzes the electoral law to become Prime Minister in the new Länder with regard to similarities and differences and it compares the regulations with the old German federal states. Therefore the approach can be seen as an inner-German...

Research on vice presidents of German state parliaments is almost non-existent. yet, there seem to be tensions between the principles guiding the election of vice presidents and the tasks they are assigned. On the one hand vice presidents are...

The article is concerned with learning how the research services of German parliaments support members of parliaments in carrying out their duties in an independent and professional manner. Starting point of the analysis is the statement that the...

The article analyses the mayoral and district administrator’s elections in Saxony from 1994 to 2015. In these elections the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) won nearly all mandates with only a few exceptions and currently holds all district...

The relevance of ideology for local political behaviour is a core interest of research on municipal governments. An extensive literature has considered the level of party orientation within municipal councils and for local voting behaviour. In...

This paper summarises the development of arguments, from 1996 to 2015, around the establishment of a means of retaining communication data (Vorratsdatenspeicherung). It focuses on the key parliamentary proceedings in both the German Bundestag and...

The analysis of voting behaviour - and particularly the reasons for the increasing vote share of the National Socialists (NSDAP) - in the Weimar Republic and the socio-structural composition of the electorate of the party have been scrutinized by...