foderalismusreform ii

• Towards Institutional Gridlock? The Limitations of Germany's Consensus Democracy

The September 2005 general election forced Germany's two largest political parties, CDU/CSU and SPD, to form the second grand coalition government in the country's post-war history. The election result was widely regarded as an expression of the view amongst the electorate that neither of the two main political camps could offer adequate solutions to the urgent political, social and economic challenges which the larger Germany has been facing since reunification in 1990. This article argues that the failure of the grand coalition to implement substantial changes of the policy and institutional status quo reveals the intrinsic structural weaknesses of Germany's "semisovereign" political system, which favors continuity over change. The democratic process in the unified Germany continues t...

... of the federal reform package (Foderalismusreform I) nevertheless found its way into the coalition n...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, Januar 2010

• Schuldenbremse

... in erster Lesung über die Föderalismusreform II, deren Kernpunkt eine Begrenzung der künftigen...

• Die Tageszeitung; Berlin
• 8. September 2009

• Towards institutional gridlock? The limitations of Germany's consensus democracy.

... of the federal reform package (Foderalismusreform I) nevertheless found its way into the coalition n...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 6 Nr. 1, März 2010