Die politikwissenschaftlichen Bemühungen, das Blockadepotenzial des deutschen Föderalismus in der Gesetzgebungsstatistik nachzuweisen, waren bisher weitgehend erfolglos. So bleibt beispielsweise entgegen der landläufigen Meinung das endgültige Scheitern von Gesetzesentwürfen am Widerstand...

The recently enacted reform of German federalism is supposed to make legislation faster, more efficient and better. To what extent are these expectations justified? In order to assess the likely effects of the reform, this study uses a research design that was recently applied by the Research...

Most efforts to detect the consequences of divided government in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been unsuccessful. Therefore, there is still much debate in Germany about the gridlock potential of divided government, as there is in the United States. Using a...

Die politikwissenschaftlichen Bemühungen, das Blockadepotenzial des deutschen Föderalismus in der Gesetzgebungsstatistik nachzuweisen, waren bisher weitgehend erfolglos. So bleibt beispielsweise entgegen der landläufigen Meinung das endgültige Scheitern von Gesetzesentwürfen am Widerstand...

The recently enacted reform of German federalism is supposed to make legislation faster, more efficient and better. To what extent are these expectations justified? In order to assess the likely effects of the reform, this study uses a research design that was recently applied by the Research...

Most efforts to detect the consequences of divided government in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been unsuccessful. Therefore, there is still much debate in Germany about the gridlock potential of divided government, as there is in the United States. Using a...

Efforts to verify legislative gridlock in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been largely unsuccessful. For instance, contrary to popular opinion, the complete failure of a government initiative due to the veto of an opposition-dominated Bundesrat is actually quite a rare...

The recently enacted reform of German federalism is supposed to make legislation "faster, more efficient and better." To what extent are these expectations justified? In order to assess the likely effects of the reform, this study uses a research design that was recently applied by the Research...

Untersuchungen über den Einfluss der Bundespolitik auf Landtagswahlentscheidungen betrachteten in der Vergangenheit im Vertrauen auf die Existenz eines autonomen "Wahlzyklus" den Zeitpunkt einer Landtagswahl als erklärende Variable für das Abschneiden der Parteien der Bundesregierung bei...

Unterschiedliche parteipolitische Mehrheiten in Bundestag und Bundesrat gelten gemeinhin als Hauptursache für die Reformschwäche deutscher Politik. Simone Burkhart hinterfragt diese Annahme und kommt zu dem überraschenden Ergebnis, dass nicht das sogenannte »Divided Government« zu massiven...