Introduction to the special issue : reframing German Federalism

Niccole M. Pamphilis, Charlie Jeffery, Carolyn Rowe, Ed Turner

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Abstract

In recent years, Germany’s federal system has been subject to a number of pressures for change. A constitutional debate on ‘disentangling’ the legislative roles of federal and Länder institutions which stuttered through the 1990s and into the 2000s finally led to a re-allocation of competences in 2006. These reforms shifted some areas of legislative responsibility from the federal to the Länder level and relaxed rules which had earlier justified a federal override when both levels held legislative responsibilities concurrently. At the very least, these constitutional adjustments increased the potential for policy outputs to diverge from one Land to another and give expression to territorial differences in priority and preference.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)165-175
Number of pages11
JournalGerman Politics
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2016

Bibliographical note

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in German Politics on 20/4/16, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09644008.2016.1165804

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