Bulletin n. 3/2010
January 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Pehle Heinrich, Sturm Roland
    Die europäische Integration – ein relevanter Bezugsrahmen des nationalen Parteienwettbewerbs?
    in Zeitschrift für Politik , Jahrgang 57, Heft 3, 2010 ,  2010
    Summary German political parties have only been marginally affected by the Europeanization of German politics. The most visible change they have gone through is their engagement in European political parties. Anti-Europe parties have so far had no electoral success in Germany. German parties still regard European elections as »secondary elections«. Controversies in election campaigns focus on national issues. German parties welcome, of course, the additional income created by the state- financing of political parties based on European election results. They have, however, not adjusted their organisational structure to make it more responsive to European issues. This is no surprise, because national parties’ electoral concerns, i.e. vote-maximisation and office-seeking, are mostly untouched by EU policy debates and struggles.
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