Community, Diversity and Autonomy: The Challenges of Reforming German Federalism

Scharpf, Fritz W.

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“…This paradigm was defined in early postwar assessments (Wheare 1953), and has periodically been asserted afresh, for example in Hesse's (1962) depiction of a 'unitary federal state', the assessments in the mid-1970s by Scharpf (1976) of entangled policymaking and Lehmbruch (1976) of the integration of party competition across the federal and Länder levels, Abromeit's (1992) analysis of post-unification continuities, and Scharpf's (2008) more recent reaffirmation of those continuities. It has survived the implementation of federalism reforms in (cf.…”

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Regional policy variation in Germany: the diversity of living conditions in a ‘unitary federal state’

Jeffery¹,

Pamphilis²,

Turner³

et al. 2014

Journal of European Public Policy

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The German federal system is conventionally understood as highly coordinated between federal and regional governments and aimed at producing a 'uniformity' of living conditions. This view has increasingly been challenged as new work focuses on innovation and diversity at the regional level, and also as a consequence of reforms to the federal system that took place in 2006. This article attempts to establish a more systematic basis for assessing and explaining the scope and significance of regional policy variation in Germany. Our findings suggest that -despite institutional structures that foster intense coordination between central and regional governments and apparent popular preferences for uniformity of policy outcomes-the extent of policy variation in Germany is much greater than conventionally understood and driven both by structural factors and partisan choices at the regional level.

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Section: Introduction -Shifting Paradigmsof German Federalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regional policy variation in Germany: the diversity of living conditions in a ‘unitary federal state’

Jeffery¹,

Pamphilis²,

Turner³

et al. 2014

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…With its 17.6 million inhabitants, North RhineWestphalia is the largest of Germany's 16 federal states. In Germany, the states have extensive political authority, and they also have an influence on federal policies (Scharpf, 2008). In the election discussed here, 22 parties were up for election.…”

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Corrective or Confirmative Actions? Political Online Participation as a Consequence of Presumed Media Influences in Election Campaigns

Bernhard¹,

Dohle

2015

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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In the investigation of political participation, one potential influencing factor has so far hardly been considered: It is to a large extent unknown whether perceived influences of (online) media result in increased political (online) participation. To prove this, a survey among the population in the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia was conducted in the context of an election (n = 485). The results show that perceived strong online influences led to an increase in online communication activities in the election campaign. The findings indicate that the online participation can be hardly interpreted as corrective, but rather as confirmative action.

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“…9 This narrative focuses on the functional distribution of responsibilities in the German federal system, which gives the federal-level responsibility for most legislation across policy issues in Germany and the Länder responsibility for implementing most of that legislation, the consequent close involvement of the Bundesrat in the federal legislative process and a presumption of uniformity of policy standards available to all citizens irrespective of location. This view discounts the Länder as significant venues for autonomous policy making, instead focusing on their 'entanglement' (Verflechtung) in state-wide politics at the federal level.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Reframing German Federalism

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Community, Diversity and Autonomy: The Challenges of Reforming German Federalism

Cited by 46 publications

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Regional policy variation in Germany: the diversity of living conditions in a ‘unitary federal state’

Regional policy variation in Germany: the diversity of living conditions in a ‘unitary federal state’

Corrective or Confirmative Actions? Political Online Participation as a Consequence of Presumed Media Influences in Election Campaigns

Introduction to the Special Issue: Reframing German Federalism

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