The Research Committee of Legislative Specialists holds the next Online Seminar on March 18. Maya Kornberg will present central findings of her new book “Stuck. How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress”. Anne Marie Cammisa of Georgetown University will provide comments. Please register for the event here.
Starting a new research project „Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge“, Marc Geddes and his team brought together international experts working on the topic. Sven T. Siefken gave a presentation on how the entire legislative process – from idea to law – must be understood for analyzing the avenues of knowledge influence and creation….
Students, faculty and staff at Colorado College meet for a Presidential Debate Watch Party on Sep. 10. It is organized by Sven T. Siefken in a class on Comparative Politics and jointly sponsored by the Program of German Studies and the Department of Political Science. Join us to Watch the Presidential Debate at the German…
Work in the office of a member of parliament is very dynamic and has particular challenges. Teams are small, hierachies flat, changes frequent – and the work is very fast-paced. At the same time, there are important connections to the district office. In a workshop with the entire team of an MP from both offices…
The State Parliament and the State Government of Schleswig-Holstein brought together 400 citizens and experts to review the experience of the Covid crisis. A symposium, held a the State Parliament in Kiel, investigated the various societal sectors that were affected. Sven T. Siefken served as moderator of the discussion on „State and Law“. A recording…
Discussing deficits, challenges and solutions in parliamentary representation by the Bundestag – with MP Hanna Steinmüller and Konstantin Kuhle. Broadcast on the German public radio station on March 28 in Deutschlandfunk Kultur and also available online https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/hat-der-bundestag-eine-repraesentationsluecke-100.html – tune in! And read more here: https://doi.org/10.3224/gwp.v70i2.11
Coalition negotiations play a key role in government formation, but they have not been analyzed much in detail. In Germany, the past decades have seen an ongoing differentiation of their organization, leading to a complex multi-level negotiation structure with a policy-oriented division of labor. Studying the working group on health policy in the coalition negotiations…