In a Workshop organized by the Netzwerk Organisationsverfassung, Sven T. Siefken presented the the cartography of legislation; identifying veto points, discussing the numerous veto points and the role of the Chancellery in coordination and strategic management.
At the Helmut Schmidt University of the Armed Forces, Sven T. Siefken will present and discuss findings from the current research project „cartography of legislation“. The project aims to tracks the legislative process with a special focus on the pre-parliamentary bill drafting in the ministerial departments. It includes the informal phases of coordination and negotiation…
Philipp Cartier and Sven T. Siefken held a second workshop with practitioners in the Bundestag from the plenary services department. The goal was to check and complement the information that has been gathered so far about all steps in the complete legislative process, from idea to law.
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….
Faculty and staff are invited to attend Colorado College Visiting Professor of German & Political Science Sven Siefken’s Faculty Lunch talk on “Hot or Cold Politics? Political Decision Making in a Parliamentary Democracy”. How does an idea become a law? This fundamental question of political decision making will be analyzed for the parliamentary democracy of…
The academic journal „The Theory and Practice of Legislation“ has published a new special issue titled „How much legislating in a legislature? Democratisation, de-democratisation and beyond“. It compiles various case studies on recent development of democracy, among them Poland, Indonesia, India and Bolivia. They shine a light on how parliaments suffer from processes of de-democratization,…
Having conducted a thorough literature review, analyzed legal documents and interviewed numerous parliamentary practitioners, the interdisciplinary team held a first workshop on the „Cartography of the Legislative Process“. Held in Berlin, the workshop brought together practitioners from the German Bundestag and the Ministry of Justice with academics and designers. The goal of the project is…
Graphic descriptions of the legislative process usually focus on what is going on “in” parliament – while neglecting the preparliamentary phases of bill preparation. But there is a lot of coordination, negotiation and public engagement happening in this less formalized phase. Bringing together the special skills of designers (with an interest in politics) and political…