Legislative Democracy in the Bundestag After Reunification

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Authors

This article assesses the impact of reunification on the Bundestag from a historical institutionalist perspective. Accordingly, it focuses on procedural development and parties’ behaviour. More specifically, it analyses parties’ control of the legislative agenda and their willingness to obstruct this agenda. Prior to reunification, the Bundestag emerged as a working legislature with decentralised agenda control. Even though the Bundestag was vulnerable to obstruction, especially by questioning the quorum, obstructive behaviour virtually ceased after 1951. After reunification, the Bundestag’s vulnerability was increased when a plenary ‘core time’ was introduced in 1995. However, all parties, including the one most directly related to reunification, the Left Party, continued to abstain from exploiting procedural loopholes. Only the AfD as the other post-1990 newcomer (albeit less directly related to reunification) did so by questioning the quorum to an unprecedented extent after it entered the Bundestag in 2017. So far, this systematic obstruction has only led to a path-dependent procedural reform. If, however, the AfD continues with this behaviour, it can be regarded as a threat to legislative democracy at least indirectly related to German reunification.
Titel in ÜbersetzungLegislative Demokratie im Bundestag nach der Wiedervereinigung
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftGerman Politics
Jahrgang32
Ausgabenummer1
Seiten (von - bis)107-126
Anzahl der Seiten20
ISSN0964-4008
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.2023

Bibliographische Notiz

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Association for the Study of German Politics.

Zuletzt angesehen

Publikationen

  1. Which function describes the species-area relationship best?
  2. Trace metal dynamics in floodplain soils of the river Elbe
  3. Albert Renger-Patzsch und sein Bildband Das Münster in Essen
  4. Umwelt-, Risiko-, Wissenschafts- und Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation
  5. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Aufsichtsrat und Abschlussprüfer
  6. Healthy eating and sustainable nutrition through mindfulness?
  7. Factors Driving German Physicians’ Managed Care Participation
  8. Exploring Affective Human-Robot Interaction with Movie Scenes
  9. Nachhaltigkeit im (neuen) Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex
  10. Sustainable corporate governance and corporate carbon outputs
  11. Demokratie und Differenz - Ein Beispiel, Demokratie zu gestalten
  12. Opportunities and Drawbacks of Mobile Flood Protection Systems
  13. Decision support systems for integrated river basin management
  14. Empathy and Donation Behavior Toward Happy and Sad Chimpanzees
  15. Global Integration and Management of Professional Service Firms
  16. Estimation of spatial distribution of wet deposition in Germany
  17. Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
  18. Concept-Cartoons as a Tool to Evoke and Analyze Pupils Jugdments
  19. Crew Resource Management Training Within the Automotive Industry
  20. Die Ökonomie des Klimawandels Warum Nichtstun teuer werden kann
  21. Liste der im norddeutschen Tiefland typischen Waldgefäßpflanzen
  22. Implicit Safety Culture assessment - a mental chronometry approach
  23. Summary of Workshop on Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
  24. Structuring multiple perspectives in environmental decision-making
  25. Auswirkungen der Wärmespeicherung auf die Mikroflora in Aquiferen.