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Volume 57 (2026), Issue 2
ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen- Publisher:
- 2026
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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
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- 0340-1758
- ISSN-Online
- 1862-2534
- Publisher
- Nomos, Baden-Baden
- Language
- German
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Newly elected parliaments establish their institutional capacity to act during their constituent sessions. Normally, these are purely performative debates, but they can escalate into conflicts and legal disputes that put the system’s resilience to...
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Between March 2023 and May 2024, 17 so-called Constituency Days were held as part of the project Hallo Bundestag. In this format, 20 to 35 constituents selected through outreach random selection from the civil registers of a constituency discuss a...
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Voter turnout in local elections in Germany’s territorial states has declined significantly since the 1980s. Research mainly attributes this downward trend to the general decrease in political participation and to the horizontal and vertical...
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The 2025 local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia signal a structural transformation of the municipal party system. The CDU and SPD recorded their historically weakest results, while the AfD achieved substantial gains and became institutionally...
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What do parliamentary group leaders expect of themselves, what factors influence political leadership, and what tools are used to ensure party discipline? This pilot study explores these questions on the basis of eight structured interviews with...
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Can strategically motivated redistricting help large U.S. states counteract the historically recurring seat losses of the president’s party in the midterm elections? Using Texas and California – together accounting for over 20 percent of the...
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Beginning in the middle of the 2010s in Germany a couple of legal norms were adopted concerning the regulation of lobbying that on the whole can be assessed as a paradigmatic change. The reforms had been made possible by a convergence between the...
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At the 2025 German federal election, the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) missed the five-percent threshold by just 9,529 votes. Strikingly, in numerous electoral districts the similarly named Bündnis Deutschland – placed next to the BSW on the...
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