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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harle, Isabella
• Stecker, Christian

Titel

Die Initiativtätigkeit des Bundesrates im Lichte der Parteipolitisierungsthese

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2011-01, Vol.42 (2), p.325-334

Ort / Verlag

NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• In order to participate in the legislation of the federal level, the Länder may introduce bills in the Bundestag through the Bundesrat. To assess to what extent these initiatives are influenced by party political conflicts, all 1332 bills introduced in the Bundesrat between 1972 and 2005 are analyzed. It can be seen that only half of these initiatives reach the status of a formal Bundesrat's initiative. This success rate is strongly influenced by the majorities in the second chamber. Under governmental control the Bundesrat blocks 75 per cent of all initiatives from Länder whose government parties sit on the benches of the opposition in the Bundestag (O-Länder). In times of opposition majorities in the Bundesrat only 30 per cent of all initiatives by R-Länder are adopted as a Bundesrat's initiative. This pattern clearly corroborates the prominent finding that the Bundesrat's legislative activities are heavily influenced by party political conflicts. The high success rate of cross-party initiatives, however, indicates that a minor share of initiatives is motivated by issue of territorial representation.