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
Expectations were high in 2025 that government formation would be different than in the past. Yet a detailed analysis of the coalition negotiations in 2025 shows that they were conducted mostly like before: they were not much faster, the coalition contract was not much shorter, and the rules on coalition cooperation were even more detailed….
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…
How are conflicts within coalitions coordinated in the German policy-making process? Sven T. Siefken discussed findings from current research on the processes in the German polity, formal and informal institutions and the relevance of political actor behavior. The presentation was given in the 2025 Conference of the DAAD Centers for German and European Studies. It…
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 …
A fixed deadline for government formation – no good idea! Our article at Verfassungsblog compares the constitutional rules in the three states with upcoming elections this summer: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt and Berlin. And discusses their potential consequences. Written with Lorenz Müller and Philipp Cartier of Gestaltungszentrale Politik. Read the text and watch the graphs here: https://verfassungsblog.de/ministerpraesidentenwahl-fristen/…
Die neue Initiative “Brand New Bundestag” unterstützt bei der Kandidatur für ein Parlamentsmandat. Über die Chancen und Möglichkeiten von parteiunabhängigen Abgeordneten im Bundestag sprach Sven T. Siefken mit dem Mitteldeutschen Rundfunk. Sie finden das Gespräch hier.