Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
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
    • Leunig Sven, Träger Hendrik
    Landesinteressen, Parteipolitik, „Parteidruck“ – der Bundesrat im Fokus divergierender Interessen
    in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Heft 1-2, 2014 ,  2014
    Interests of the Laender, Partisan Politics, Party Pressure – the Bundesrat in the focus of diverging interests For decades a debate has raged in political science, the media and in politics, namely, whether partisan politics have superseded the genuine interests of the Laender in the German Bundesrat. This article first deals with the question which methodological approach or which research design is likely to offer an answer to the problem. We suggest a sequential use of, first, quantitative methods, and second, qualitative case studies which amend the results of the former. We used this approach for those cases in which the conference committee between Bundestag and Bundesrat was invoked between 1990 and 2005, as well as for selected law making processes during that time frame. Our results support the thesis that the Laender interests were marginalized by partisan politics only in rare instances.
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