A Fall of Expert Commissions
The new German government has planned a record number of expert commissions. Sven T. Siefken has been doing research on their various uses for many years and talked about his findings to the Spiegel magazine. There are symbolic uses, they may help settle negotiations by postponing though decisions, but they can also bring about fundamental policy change. It is always necessary to look at the individual commission and analyze it. The article is available https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/schwarz-rote-koalition-herbst-der-reformen-wird-zum-herbst-der-kommissionen-a-213699f8-285e-4ab4-a038-6ef263156898
The original study from 2007: Expertenkommissionen im politischen Prozess. Eine Bilanz zur rot-grünen Bundesregierung 1998-2005. VS Verlag, 2007, here
A recent update “Mehr Licht Als Schatten: Expertenkommissionen Der Bundesregierung.” Politikum, iss. 3 (2019): 12–21. here
An earlier update: Expertenkommissionen der Bundesregierung. In Svenja Falk, Manuela Glaab, Andrea Römmele, Henrik Schober, Martin Thunert (Eds.): Handbuch Politikberatung. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019, pp. 145–161 here
Politikberatung durch Expertenkommissionen – Chance oder Risiko für die Inklusion schwacher Interessen? In Markus Linden, Winfried Thaa (Eds.): Die politische Repräsentation von Fremden und Armen. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, pp. 99–118.
Siefken, Sven T. (2006): Expertenkommissionen der Bundesregierung. In Svenja Falk, Dieter Rehfeld, Andrea Römmele, Martin Thunert (Eds.): Handbuch Politikberatung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2006, pp. 215–227.
