Arbeitspapier
No exit from the joint decision trap? Can German federalism reform itself?
The unique institutions that make up Germany's unitary federal state, long considered part of the country's post-war success story, are now generally perceived as a joint-decision trap impeding effective policy responses to new economic and demographic challenges at both levels of government. Nevertheless, a high-powered bicameral Commission set up in the fall of 2003 failed to reach agreement on constitutional reforms. The paper analyzes the misguided procedural and substantive choices that led to this failure, and it discusses the possibility of asymmetric constitutional solutions that might enhance the capacity for autonomous action at both levels.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: MPIfG Working Paper ; No. 05/8
Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Scharpf, Fritz W.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
(wo)
Cologne
(wann)
2005
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:20 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Scharpf, Fritz W.
- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Entstanden
- 2005
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