The Digital Agenda Committee of the Bundestag was a remarkable institutional change in Germany. It represents the first body of its kind among all EU member states. In this article, we analyse it in its first legislative session (2013-2017) and examine the case of data retention legislation to...

Die Arbeit will den in der Demokratietheorie in Mode gekommenen Begriff 'Deliberative Demokratie' genauer bestimmen. Dazu werden in Anlehnung an Hubertus Buchstein drei 'Versionen' der Theorie untersucht: der spieltheoretische Ansatz (schwache Version), der Ansatz von Jürgen Habermas (starke...