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 …
How are laws really made? This morning, I talked with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the German national public radio, about the current project Gestaltungszentrale Politik and I have been working on. The recording is available here https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/demokratie-auf-tapetenrolle-wie-gesetze-wirklich-entstehen-100.html
In its latest issue, Choices, the Cologne magazine of culture, focuses on current developments of democracy. In an interview, Sven T. Siefken discusses current developments and challenges – and emphasizes the need for everyone to get in touch and be active. The interview is available in the printed magazine and online
On March 13, 2025, the Bundestag gathers for a special session to hold the first reading of bills that will amend the constitution. The goal is to allow for military spending unlimited by the constitutional debt brake. On top, a special debt program of 500 billion Euro for infrastructure spending is planned. These far-ranging decisions…
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…
Im Bundestag wird überlegt, nach Vorbild des Parlaments der Niederlande eine Kinderfragestunde einzuführen. Darüber sprach Sven T. Siefken mit dem Kindersender “Tweens” des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks. Hier finden Sie den Beitrag als Podcast: https://www.mdr.de/tweens/podcast/live-show/live-show-podcast-102.html
The cover of my book on expert commissions in the political process has faded after 18 years … not the analysis. More on the advisory commissions in 2025 and what to expect from them, I discussed with Rheinische Post newspaper (here): pension reform, the debt break, child and youth protection in a digital world, de-risking…