Themen im Bundestagswahlkampf 2021
Mit den zentralen Themen der Bundestagswahl 2021 befasst sich die neue Reihe #Nachgefragt!BTW21 des Portals für Politikwissenschaft. Die Einschätzungen dazu von Sven T. Siefken finden Sie hier …
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Can the Old Parliament Change the Constitution?
In the pre-negotiation talks for coalition formation, CDU/CSU and SPD decided on far ranging plans to invest in infrastructure and military spending. This happens with the background of an announced reduction in international support by the United States. To make this spending increase possible, the German Constitution with its mandatory debt brake has to be…
Reshuffling Political Leadership in Germany
After the head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary party group has resigned, Thorsten Frei was nominated as successor for that leadership post. In an interview with public radio station hr1, Sven T. Siefken discussed the challenges of the job and the profile of the candidate. Listen to the interview here
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…
The „Double Shock“ of the Pandemic
The Pandemic posed a double shock for parliaments around the globe; they had to adjust their ways of working to the requirements of infection protection, and they also needed to deal with the prerogative of executive action. In an interview with German newspaper „Das Parlament“, Sven T. Siefken discusses perspectives of parliamentarism in the Covid-19…
Corruption Scandal in the EP – Consequences for MPs
Sven Siefken discussed the consequences of the recent corruption scandal in the European Parliament for its members and their ways of information gathering. You can hear parts of the interview here at Deutschlandfunk „Europa heute“ (8:30)
“Throw your ballots into the waste bin”?
On January 22, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung featured the ongoing design competition in the ReDeRe project on its front page. We are looking forward to many interesting contributions. The interdisciplinary project “Redesigning Democratic Representation”, jointly led by Professors Friedrich von Borries and Sven T. Siefken is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and aims to…
