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This book offers a compelling and persuasive framework for understanding the German constitutional system. It argues that it can only be fully understood as a dual structure combining two layers with little in common. The first layer is the basic administrative institutional structure, comprised of federal institutions. The second layer is that of parliamentary democracy. It is the interplay between the two, as mediated by the chancellery, the major political parties and the Federal Constitutional Court, which lies at the heart of the German constitutional arrangement.
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This book offers a compelling and persuasive framework for understanding the German constitutional system. It argues that it can only be fully understood as a dual structure combining two layers with little in common. The first layer is the basic administrative institutional structure, comprised of federal institutions. The second layer is that of parliamentary democracy. It is the interplay between the two, as mediated by the chancellery, the major political parties and the Federal Constitutional Court, which lies at the heart of the German constitutional arrangement.
This innovative hybrid perspective allows for a better understanding of the current challenges of parliamentary government and its potential long-term development. An updated translation of its impactful German edition, this provides one of the most brilliant introductions to governmental systems of one of the world's most influential states.
This innovative hybrid perspective allows for a better understanding of the current challenges of parliamentary government and its potential long-term development. An updated translation of its impactful German edition, this provides one of the most brilliant introductions to governmental systems of one of the world's most influential states.
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- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781509943401
- Artikelnr.: 62002893
- Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
- Seitenzahl: 152
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
- Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781509943401
- Artikelnr.: 62002893
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Florian Meinel is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Political Science at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
1. Introduction: The Two Crises of Parliamentary Government
I. Brexit and the Europeanisation of Westminster Parliamentarianism
II. Master Narratives of the German Democracy - and Recent Doubts
III. Realities of Mass and Social Media
IV. Outline
2. The Two Worlds of German Constitutionalism
I. What is Parliamentary Government?
A. The Monism of Powers
B. Reservations about Parliamentary Rule
C. Confidence, Power and Control
D. The Asymmetric Juridification of the System of Government
II. The Dual Structure of the German Constitution
A. The Administration's Uncoupling from the Political System
B. Continuity as Principle
C. The Constitution as an Achievement
III. The Outsider's Republic: Parliamentary Government and the Political
Culture of the Merkel Era
A. Technocracy or Morality?
B. The Weakness of Parliamentary Instruments of Power
C. The Drama of the Social Democrats
IV. Merkel's Legacy and the Cautionary Tale of the Grand Coalition
A. The Supermajority as Working Principle
B. The Democratic Costs of the Multi-Party System
C. The Future of the Constitution
V. Parliamentarianism and Anti-Parliamentarianism
3. Transformations of Parliamentary Government in Germany Since World War I
I. The Written and the Real Constitution
A. A Constitution without a Theory
B. The Link between Parliament and Government
II. 1919: Weimar - A Semi-Parliamentary Bureaucracy
A. The Very Different Example of England
B. The German Problem
C. Organising Responsibility
D. Distorted Images in Parliamentary Theory: A Weimar Legacy
III. 1949: Parliamentarianism and the Basic Law
A. The Point of Departure
B. A Turn Away from the Parliamentary System of Government?
C. The House that Adenauer Built (With a Little Help from the SPD)
D. The Federal Chancellery as Parliamentary Government Headquarters
E. The Chancellor's De Facto Right to Dissolve Parliament
IV. 1969: The Normality of Parliamentary Changes of Power and the 'Popular
Parties' as Mediating Institutions
A. Parliamentary State Secretaries: Their Uses and Abuses
B. In Praise of Party Patronage
V. The Legal Connection between Parliament and Government Forged by the
Constitutional Court
A. Limits of Constitutional Review in Parliamentary Democracies
B. A Political Court
C. The Constitutional Enabling of Parliamentary Minorities and of the
Parties
D. The Reservation of Statutory Powers and its Democratic Reinterpretation
E. Parliament as an Agency of Legalisation and a Machine of Legislation
4. What is the Bundestag? Political Representation in a Working Legislature
I. What is Parliamentary Representation?
A. Representation without Decision?
B. Constitutional Problems of Representation
II. The Constitutional Importance of the Electoral System
A. Is there a Democratic Precedence of Proportional Representation?
B. The Political Consequences
C. The Eternal Question of Electoral Reform
III. The Tasks of Political Theory
5. The Crisis of the Mediating Institutions
I. The Abiding Peculiarity of Parliamentary Government in the Federal
Republic
II. The Creeping Decline of the Popular Parties as a Constitutional Factor
A. The Limits of Culturalist Explanations
B. In Praise of Lobbyism, or: The End of West German Corporatism
C. There are No Small Parties Any More
D. At the Borders of Government and Opposition
E. Forming Governments I: Why do Coalition Talks Take Longer and Longer
F. Forming Governments II: Intervals of the Political System
G. Forming Governments III: The Latency of the Presidential Factor
III. The Dilemma of the Federal Constitutional Court
A. The Temptations of the Grand Coalition
B. Europe and the Difficulties of Bringing Back in Parliament
C. Formalising the Informal: A Juridical Dilemma IV. The Chancellery
Unchained
A. What Matters when it's a Matter for the Boss
B. The Creeping Unitarisation of the Executive
6. Potentials and Weaknesses of Parliamentary Control
I. What is Parliamentary Scrutiny?
A. Trust and Scrutiny
B. The Dialectic of Ministerial Responsibility
C. Who is the Federal Government? or: The Object of Scrutiny
II. Functions and Limits of Plenary Control
A. Questions of Style, Rules of Procedure
B. The Lack of Rhetorical Culture
C. The Complicity of the Opposition
III. In the Engine Room of Responsibility: The Committees
A. The Masterstroke of the 1969 Parliamentary Reform
B. Politics and Bureaucracy in the Committees
IV. The Multi-Level System, Information Overkill and New
Administrative Models - Aspects of Unbounded Control Tasks
A. How to Control 'Europe'?
B. Scrutiny or Executive Self-Control? A Passive Parliament
C. The Rise of Agencies and the Limits of Inquiry Rights
D. Government Scrutiny by Corporate Governance: An Unconstitutional Fallacy
7. The Future of Parliamentarianism and the German Constitution
I. What Chances for Minority Governments?
II. A New Chance for a Bargaining Democracy?
III. A Renaissance of Parliamentarianism?
IV. Constitutional Implications
V. Institutional Alternatives
I. Brexit and the Europeanisation of Westminster Parliamentarianism
II. Master Narratives of the German Democracy - and Recent Doubts
III. Realities of Mass and Social Media
IV. Outline
2. The Two Worlds of German Constitutionalism
I. What is Parliamentary Government?
A. The Monism of Powers
B. Reservations about Parliamentary Rule
C. Confidence, Power and Control
D. The Asymmetric Juridification of the System of Government
II. The Dual Structure of the German Constitution
A. The Administration's Uncoupling from the Political System
B. Continuity as Principle
C. The Constitution as an Achievement
III. The Outsider's Republic: Parliamentary Government and the Political
Culture of the Merkel Era
A. Technocracy or Morality?
B. The Weakness of Parliamentary Instruments of Power
C. The Drama of the Social Democrats
IV. Merkel's Legacy and the Cautionary Tale of the Grand Coalition
A. The Supermajority as Working Principle
B. The Democratic Costs of the Multi-Party System
C. The Future of the Constitution
V. Parliamentarianism and Anti-Parliamentarianism
3. Transformations of Parliamentary Government in Germany Since World War I
I. The Written and the Real Constitution
A. A Constitution without a Theory
B. The Link between Parliament and Government
II. 1919: Weimar - A Semi-Parliamentary Bureaucracy
A. The Very Different Example of England
B. The German Problem
C. Organising Responsibility
D. Distorted Images in Parliamentary Theory: A Weimar Legacy
III. 1949: Parliamentarianism and the Basic Law
A. The Point of Departure
B. A Turn Away from the Parliamentary System of Government?
C. The House that Adenauer Built (With a Little Help from the SPD)
D. The Federal Chancellery as Parliamentary Government Headquarters
E. The Chancellor's De Facto Right to Dissolve Parliament
IV. 1969: The Normality of Parliamentary Changes of Power and the 'Popular
Parties' as Mediating Institutions
A. Parliamentary State Secretaries: Their Uses and Abuses
B. In Praise of Party Patronage
V. The Legal Connection between Parliament and Government Forged by the
Constitutional Court
A. Limits of Constitutional Review in Parliamentary Democracies
B. A Political Court
C. The Constitutional Enabling of Parliamentary Minorities and of the
Parties
D. The Reservation of Statutory Powers and its Democratic Reinterpretation
E. Parliament as an Agency of Legalisation and a Machine of Legislation
4. What is the Bundestag? Political Representation in a Working Legislature
I. What is Parliamentary Representation?
A. Representation without Decision?
B. Constitutional Problems of Representation
II. The Constitutional Importance of the Electoral System
A. Is there a Democratic Precedence of Proportional Representation?
B. The Political Consequences
C. The Eternal Question of Electoral Reform
III. The Tasks of Political Theory
5. The Crisis of the Mediating Institutions
I. The Abiding Peculiarity of Parliamentary Government in the Federal
Republic
II. The Creeping Decline of the Popular Parties as a Constitutional Factor
A. The Limits of Culturalist Explanations
B. In Praise of Lobbyism, or: The End of West German Corporatism
C. There are No Small Parties Any More
D. At the Borders of Government and Opposition
E. Forming Governments I: Why do Coalition Talks Take Longer and Longer
F. Forming Governments II: Intervals of the Political System
G. Forming Governments III: The Latency of the Presidential Factor
III. The Dilemma of the Federal Constitutional Court
A. The Temptations of the Grand Coalition
B. Europe and the Difficulties of Bringing Back in Parliament
C. Formalising the Informal: A Juridical Dilemma IV. The Chancellery
Unchained
A. What Matters when it's a Matter for the Boss
B. The Creeping Unitarisation of the Executive
6. Potentials and Weaknesses of Parliamentary Control
I. What is Parliamentary Scrutiny?
A. Trust and Scrutiny
B. The Dialectic of Ministerial Responsibility
C. Who is the Federal Government? or: The Object of Scrutiny
II. Functions and Limits of Plenary Control
A. Questions of Style, Rules of Procedure
B. The Lack of Rhetorical Culture
C. The Complicity of the Opposition
III. In the Engine Room of Responsibility: The Committees
A. The Masterstroke of the 1969 Parliamentary Reform
B. Politics and Bureaucracy in the Committees
IV. The Multi-Level System, Information Overkill and New
Administrative Models - Aspects of Unbounded Control Tasks
A. How to Control 'Europe'?
B. Scrutiny or Executive Self-Control? A Passive Parliament
C. The Rise of Agencies and the Limits of Inquiry Rights
D. Government Scrutiny by Corporate Governance: An Unconstitutional Fallacy
7. The Future of Parliamentarianism and the German Constitution
I. What Chances for Minority Governments?
II. A New Chance for a Bargaining Democracy?
III. A Renaissance of Parliamentarianism?
IV. Constitutional Implications
V. Institutional Alternatives
1. Introduction: The Two Crises of Parliamentary Government
I. Brexit and the Europeanisation of Westminster Parliamentarianism
II. Master Narratives of the German Democracy - and Recent Doubts
III. Realities of Mass and Social Media
IV. Outline
2. The Two Worlds of German Constitutionalism
I. What is Parliamentary Government?
A. The Monism of Powers
B. Reservations about Parliamentary Rule
C. Confidence, Power and Control
D. The Asymmetric Juridification of the System of Government
II. The Dual Structure of the German Constitution
A. The Administration's Uncoupling from the Political System
B. Continuity as Principle
C. The Constitution as an Achievement
III. The Outsider's Republic: Parliamentary Government and the Political
Culture of the Merkel Era
A. Technocracy or Morality?
B. The Weakness of Parliamentary Instruments of Power
C. The Drama of the Social Democrats
IV. Merkel's Legacy and the Cautionary Tale of the Grand Coalition
A. The Supermajority as Working Principle
B. The Democratic Costs of the Multi-Party System
C. The Future of the Constitution
V. Parliamentarianism and Anti-Parliamentarianism
3. Transformations of Parliamentary Government in Germany Since World War I
I. The Written and the Real Constitution
A. A Constitution without a Theory
B. The Link between Parliament and Government
II. 1919: Weimar - A Semi-Parliamentary Bureaucracy
A. The Very Different Example of England
B. The German Problem
C. Organising Responsibility
D. Distorted Images in Parliamentary Theory: A Weimar Legacy
III. 1949: Parliamentarianism and the Basic Law
A. The Point of Departure
B. A Turn Away from the Parliamentary System of Government?
C. The House that Adenauer Built (With a Little Help from the SPD)
D. The Federal Chancellery as Parliamentary Government Headquarters
E. The Chancellor's De Facto Right to Dissolve Parliament
IV. 1969: The Normality of Parliamentary Changes of Power and the 'Popular
Parties' as Mediating Institutions
A. Parliamentary State Secretaries: Their Uses and Abuses
B. In Praise of Party Patronage
V. The Legal Connection between Parliament and Government Forged by the
Constitutional Court
A. Limits of Constitutional Review in Parliamentary Democracies
B. A Political Court
C. The Constitutional Enabling of Parliamentary Minorities and of the
Parties
D. The Reservation of Statutory Powers and its Democratic Reinterpretation
E. Parliament as an Agency of Legalisation and a Machine of Legislation
4. What is the Bundestag? Political Representation in a Working Legislature
I. What is Parliamentary Representation?
A. Representation without Decision?
B. Constitutional Problems of Representation
II. The Constitutional Importance of the Electoral System
A. Is there a Democratic Precedence of Proportional Representation?
B. The Political Consequences
C. The Eternal Question of Electoral Reform
III. The Tasks of Political Theory
5. The Crisis of the Mediating Institutions
I. The Abiding Peculiarity of Parliamentary Government in the Federal
Republic
II. The Creeping Decline of the Popular Parties as a Constitutional Factor
A. The Limits of Culturalist Explanations
B. In Praise of Lobbyism, or: The End of West German Corporatism
C. There are No Small Parties Any More
D. At the Borders of Government and Opposition
E. Forming Governments I: Why do Coalition Talks Take Longer and Longer
F. Forming Governments II: Intervals of the Political System
G. Forming Governments III: The Latency of the Presidential Factor
III. The Dilemma of the Federal Constitutional Court
A. The Temptations of the Grand Coalition
B. Europe and the Difficulties of Bringing Back in Parliament
C. Formalising the Informal: A Juridical Dilemma IV. The Chancellery
Unchained
A. What Matters when it's a Matter for the Boss
B. The Creeping Unitarisation of the Executive
6. Potentials and Weaknesses of Parliamentary Control
I. What is Parliamentary Scrutiny?
A. Trust and Scrutiny
B. The Dialectic of Ministerial Responsibility
C. Who is the Federal Government? or: The Object of Scrutiny
II. Functions and Limits of Plenary Control
A. Questions of Style, Rules of Procedure
B. The Lack of Rhetorical Culture
C. The Complicity of the Opposition
III. In the Engine Room of Responsibility: The Committees
A. The Masterstroke of the 1969 Parliamentary Reform
B. Politics and Bureaucracy in the Committees
IV. The Multi-Level System, Information Overkill and New
Administrative Models - Aspects of Unbounded Control Tasks
A. How to Control 'Europe'?
B. Scrutiny or Executive Self-Control? A Passive Parliament
C. The Rise of Agencies and the Limits of Inquiry Rights
D. Government Scrutiny by Corporate Governance: An Unconstitutional Fallacy
7. The Future of Parliamentarianism and the German Constitution
I. What Chances for Minority Governments?
II. A New Chance for a Bargaining Democracy?
III. A Renaissance of Parliamentarianism?
IV. Constitutional Implications
V. Institutional Alternatives
I. Brexit and the Europeanisation of Westminster Parliamentarianism
II. Master Narratives of the German Democracy - and Recent Doubts
III. Realities of Mass and Social Media
IV. Outline
2. The Two Worlds of German Constitutionalism
I. What is Parliamentary Government?
A. The Monism of Powers
B. Reservations about Parliamentary Rule
C. Confidence, Power and Control
D. The Asymmetric Juridification of the System of Government
II. The Dual Structure of the German Constitution
A. The Administration's Uncoupling from the Political System
B. Continuity as Principle
C. The Constitution as an Achievement
III. The Outsider's Republic: Parliamentary Government and the Political
Culture of the Merkel Era
A. Technocracy or Morality?
B. The Weakness of Parliamentary Instruments of Power
C. The Drama of the Social Democrats
IV. Merkel's Legacy and the Cautionary Tale of the Grand Coalition
A. The Supermajority as Working Principle
B. The Democratic Costs of the Multi-Party System
C. The Future of the Constitution
V. Parliamentarianism and Anti-Parliamentarianism
3. Transformations of Parliamentary Government in Germany Since World War I
I. The Written and the Real Constitution
A. A Constitution without a Theory
B. The Link between Parliament and Government
II. 1919: Weimar - A Semi-Parliamentary Bureaucracy
A. The Very Different Example of England
B. The German Problem
C. Organising Responsibility
D. Distorted Images in Parliamentary Theory: A Weimar Legacy
III. 1949: Parliamentarianism and the Basic Law
A. The Point of Departure
B. A Turn Away from the Parliamentary System of Government?
C. The House that Adenauer Built (With a Little Help from the SPD)
D. The Federal Chancellery as Parliamentary Government Headquarters
E. The Chancellor's De Facto Right to Dissolve Parliament
IV. 1969: The Normality of Parliamentary Changes of Power and the 'Popular
Parties' as Mediating Institutions
A. Parliamentary State Secretaries: Their Uses and Abuses
B. In Praise of Party Patronage
V. The Legal Connection between Parliament and Government Forged by the
Constitutional Court
A. Limits of Constitutional Review in Parliamentary Democracies
B. A Political Court
C. The Constitutional Enabling of Parliamentary Minorities and of the
Parties
D. The Reservation of Statutory Powers and its Democratic Reinterpretation
E. Parliament as an Agency of Legalisation and a Machine of Legislation
4. What is the Bundestag? Political Representation in a Working Legislature
I. What is Parliamentary Representation?
A. Representation without Decision?
B. Constitutional Problems of Representation
II. The Constitutional Importance of the Electoral System
A. Is there a Democratic Precedence of Proportional Representation?
B. The Political Consequences
C. The Eternal Question of Electoral Reform
III. The Tasks of Political Theory
5. The Crisis of the Mediating Institutions
I. The Abiding Peculiarity of Parliamentary Government in the Federal
Republic
II. The Creeping Decline of the Popular Parties as a Constitutional Factor
A. The Limits of Culturalist Explanations
B. In Praise of Lobbyism, or: The End of West German Corporatism
C. There are No Small Parties Any More
D. At the Borders of Government and Opposition
E. Forming Governments I: Why do Coalition Talks Take Longer and Longer
F. Forming Governments II: Intervals of the Political System
G. Forming Governments III: The Latency of the Presidential Factor
III. The Dilemma of the Federal Constitutional Court
A. The Temptations of the Grand Coalition
B. Europe and the Difficulties of Bringing Back in Parliament
C. Formalising the Informal: A Juridical Dilemma IV. The Chancellery
Unchained
A. What Matters when it's a Matter for the Boss
B. The Creeping Unitarisation of the Executive
6. Potentials and Weaknesses of Parliamentary Control
I. What is Parliamentary Scrutiny?
A. Trust and Scrutiny
B. The Dialectic of Ministerial Responsibility
C. Who is the Federal Government? or: The Object of Scrutiny
II. Functions and Limits of Plenary Control
A. Questions of Style, Rules of Procedure
B. The Lack of Rhetorical Culture
C. The Complicity of the Opposition
III. In the Engine Room of Responsibility: The Committees
A. The Masterstroke of the 1969 Parliamentary Reform
B. Politics and Bureaucracy in the Committees
IV. The Multi-Level System, Information Overkill and New
Administrative Models - Aspects of Unbounded Control Tasks
A. How to Control 'Europe'?
B. Scrutiny or Executive Self-Control? A Passive Parliament
C. The Rise of Agencies and the Limits of Inquiry Rights
D. Government Scrutiny by Corporate Governance: An Unconstitutional Fallacy
7. The Future of Parliamentarianism and the German Constitution
I. What Chances for Minority Governments?
II. A New Chance for a Bargaining Democracy?
III. A Renaissance of Parliamentarianism?
IV. Constitutional Implications
V. Institutional Alternatives







