Coalitions

Looking Back at Government Formation 2025 – and Ahead at Governing

BySTS 2025-05-072025-05-09

The new Federal government of Germany is sworn in on May 6, 2025. In the webinar on May 8, Barbara Donovan, Professor of Political Science at Wesleyan College, Ed Turner, Associate Dean of the College of Business and Social Sciences, Aston University, and Sven T. Siefken look at the process of government formation and discuss what to expect from the new government of Germany, as it faces many domestic and international challenges.

A recording is available here: https://youtu.be/4_UOTSao7lE

Coalitions

How Long is Your Contract?
BySTS 2025-04-112025-04-11

How long is your contract? It was neither negotiated at turbo speed nor with a super slim result: The coalition contract 2025 is shorter than the last three but longer than most. And government formation – very likely – will take exactly the same amount of time in 2025 as it did in 2021: 73…

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Coalitions | Media | Parliaments

Can the Old Parliament Change the Constitution?
BySTS 2025-03-112025-04-07

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…

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Coalitions | Media

From Working Groups to the Main Negotiators – the Path to a New Coalition in Germany
BySTS 2025-03-252025-03-28

The coalition negotiations in Germany are moving to the next phase: From the working groups to the main negotiation group. In 2023, we analyzed changes in health policy along those steps. On March 25, Süddeutsche Zeitung picked up some of the findings and related them to the current negotiations as they are moving from the…

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Coalitions | Publications | Research

On the Formalization of Coalition Building
BySTS 2024-07-132024-09-08

An edited volume, published in 2024, brings together analyses made at the outset of the new traffic light coalition in Germany. Most of the contributions have previously been published in the Journal German Politics and Society. Sven T. Siefken wrote a chapter on the continuing formalization of coalition formation. Details about the new book can…

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Advice | Coalitions | Expert Commissions

Expert Commissions in the Coalition Contract
BySTS 2025-05-112025-09-17

The coalition contract of CDU, CSU and SPD includes agreements to set up 15 expert commissions, a very high number compared to previous years. On the public radio station MDR, Sven T. Siefken talked about the different uses and reasons for this particular instrument of policy advice, varying from substantial advice to symbolism. The article…

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Coalitions | Conferences | Legislation

Compromise in a Time of Conflicts
BySTS 2025-06-212025-07-03

How can coalitions build compromise in times of conflict? In the 2025 annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, held at the University of Freiburg, Sven T. Siefken was an invited speaker to present his current research on coordination in the policy making process, pointing at five important steps in the process: coalition negotiations,…

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