Der Deutsche Bundestag

Ismayr, Wolfgang

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“…All of these activities serve either the party—such as voting attendance and rapporteurships—or the voters—such as questions. After parliamentary reforms in 1969 and 1980, individual legislative rights were strongly reduced in the German Bundestag in order to strengthen the party groups in opposition and to make parliamentary work more efficient (Ismayr ). As a result, voting, questioning, and rapporteurships are nearly the only remaining activities that allow for the study of individual legislative behavior.…”

Section: Career Prospect and Expertise Impacting Legislative Activitymentioning

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“…We therefore consider them an appropriate measure for activities requiring more commitment than simple voting attendance, but less expertise than rapporteurships in committees. Written and oral parliamentary questions (in contrast to interpellations such as “Kleine” and “Grosse Anfragen”) are one of the few remaining tools of German parliamentarians to act individually in a parliament (Siefken ), which has strongly increased the powers of the party groups over individuals (Ismayr )…”

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“…This rapporteurship is considered as the “real work” in the committee (Münzing and Pilz , 65). A committee head asks parliamentarians to serve as rapporteur in accordance with the party group (Ismayr , 178). Parliamentarians usually are keen on serving as rapporteurs since it gives them the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This analysis is therefore representative of the individual legislative behavior of many parliamentary regimes. With regard to the division of labor in the Bundestag, it can serve as a hard case in which individual legislative activities are strongly restrained by powerful party groups (Ismayr ). The three individual legislative activities that are least influenced by party groups are vote attendance, parliamentary questions, and rapporteurships.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring, Maintaining, and Disengaging—The Three Phases of a Legislator's Life

Bailer

Ohmura

2017

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Building on the understanding that a career is a dynamic concept, this article applies the idea that parliamentarians' legislative activities vary according to their career stage and age. This is partly a function of experience and partly a function of future career prospects. Using a new data set of the German Bundestag (2002-13) that pinpoints the age and career stage of MPs at the time of individual activities, namely, attending votes, posing parliamentary questions, and holding rapporteurships, we identify practical and normative challenges to MPs' legislative work: It takes time to learn the trade and as the desire for re-election dissipates, a last-period problem arises. MPs significantly reduce their activity levels toward the end of their legislative careers, indicating a clear loss of accountability toward their parties and their constituents.Parliamentarians want to perform well in order to get re-selected, re-elected, and promoted to higher positions. In this they are limited by institutional structures such as election systems and selection procedures, but also by their own career prospects, expertise, and individual talent. While we already have substantial knowledge of the impact of institutions on parliamentarians' performance such as voting, our knowledge is more limited with regard to how the individually variable resources of career prospects and expertise either constrain or enable parliamentarians. Investigating the role of career prospects and expertise and their impact on the behavior of parliamentarians furthers our understanding of what limits and what drives parliamentarians during their course of their parliamentary career paths. In this study, we compare legislative activities with professional employment where people begin careers, learn a trade, and become active and efficient workers over the course of those careers. Careers are the product of rational, individual calculations (Daniel 2015), and including career prospects in an analysis of MPs' legislative activity improves our understanding of legislators' accountability toward their party and voters.

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Section: Career Prospect and Expertise Impacting Legislative Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Career Prospect and Expertise Impacting Legislative Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Career Prospect and Expertise Impacting Legislative Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Career Prospect and Expertise Impacting Legislative Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ohmura

2017

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“…Die Zuwendung zum Parlament als Forschungsgegenstand setzte sich in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft erst nach 1969 mit der Gründung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Parlamentsfragen und der Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen allmählich durch. Es ist das Verdienst einer Hamburg/Lüneburger-Gruppe (Thaysen 1976 (Ismayr 2001). Damit führte Ismayr die deutsche Parlamentarismusforschung dort fort, wo sie ihre Stärken hat: in der Darstellung und historisch angeleiteten Erklärung.…”

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Zwischen pragmatischem Verstehen und theoretischen Perspektiven. Politikwissenschaftliche Forschung zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Sturm

2009

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Zusammenfassung: Das Erkenntnisinteresse der deutschen politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung in Bezug auf die wichtigsten Institutionen deutscher Politik (Bundespräsident, Bundesregierung, Bundestag, Bundesrat/Föderalismus und Bundesverfassungsgericht) hat sich in Abhängigkeit von gesellschaftlichen Diskursen und wissenschaftlichen Kontroversen in der Politikwissenschaft seit 1949 durch Schwerpunktsetzungen und Ausdifferenzierung immer wieder verändert. Überzeugen-de Gesamtdarstellungen liegen in beeindruckender Vielfalt vor. Die kreative Verbindung vor allem auch internationaler politikwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung mit dem in der nationalen Forschung gewachsenen Wissen über Funktionszusammenhänge des deutschen politischen Systems bleibt jedoch ein Desiderat der Forschung.Abstract: Since 1949 we have witnessed paradigmatic changes in political science research concerning the field of German politics. The focus of this article is on the most important political institutions in Germany: Federal President, Federal Government, Federal Parliament, Bundesrat (quasi second chamber) / federalism and Federal Constitutional Court. German political science has produced an impressive number of publications on the German political system with a wide range of approaches and of high quality. What is to some extent lacking, however, is an innovative combination of the improved knowledge created with regard to the functioning of institutions in Germany on the one hand and of middle-range theories of political science on the other, especially of theories developed in international and comparative discourses.

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Introduction: Executive Secrecy and Democratic Politics

Riese

2023

New Perspectives in German Political Studies

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Der Deutsche Bundestag

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Exploring, Maintaining, and Disengaging—The Three Phases of a Legislator's Life

Exploring, Maintaining, and Disengaging—The Three Phases of a Legislator's Life

Zwischen pragmatischem Verstehen und theoretischen Perspektiven. Politikwissenschaftliche Forschung zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Introduction: Executive Secrecy and Democratic Politics

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