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Institutions and Institutional Change in the Federal Republic of Germany

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Ludger Helms

    1. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Institutional Change and Adaptation in a Stable Democracy

    • Ludger Helms
    Pages 1-31

  3. The Bundestag — Still the Centre of Decision-Making?

    • Klaus von Beyme
    Pages 32-47

  4. The Federal Presidency: Parameters of Presidential Power in a Parliamentary Democracy

    • Wolfgang Rudzio
    Pages 48-64

  5. The Federal Government:Variations of Chancellor Dominance

    • Karlheinz Niclauss
    Pages 65-83

  6. The Federal Constitutional Court: Institutionalising Judicial Review in a Semisovereign Democracy

    • Ludger Helms
    Pages 84-104

  7. The Federal System: Breaking through the Barriers of Interlocking Federalism?

    • Roland Sturm
    Pages 105-123

  8. The Electoral System: More Continuity than Change

    • Eckhard Jesse
    Pages 124-142

  9. Monetary Institutions: Maintaining Independence in Times of Fiscal Stress

    • Uwe Wagschal
    Pages 143-165

  10. Parties and the Party System: Pluralisation and Functional Change within Limits

    • Oskar Niedermayer
    Pages 166-187

  11. Interest Groups: Continuity and Change of German Lobbyism since 1974

    • Martin Sebaldt
    Pages 188-204

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-229
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About this book

This volume offers a detailed account of German political institutions as they have developed over the last decades. Each of the individual chapters, written by leading German specialists, provides a balanced assessment of the institution under consideration as well as the more recent political research in the given field. The extended introductory chapter by the editor gives an overview of how the institutional system of the Federal Republic has combined the conflicting tasks of political stability and adaptation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

    Ludger Helms

About the editor

LUDGER HELMS is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was formerly a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg and the Insatiate for Advanced Studies in Vienna as well as a visiting researcher in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on various aspects of comparative politics in such journals as German Politics, German Politics and Society, and West European Politics. His most recent book is Executives in Western Democracies.

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