Permanent election campaign

The term permanent election campaign in federalism in Germany describes the situation in which regular elections take place at local, state or federal level.

It is assumed that the long-term election campaign, together with other factors, can paralyze political reform willingness. The "courage to reform " at the federal level is taken away by the fear of being voted out of office in a federal state. Instead of factual politics, an election campaign would be conducted , and budget consolidation could be slowed down considerably by a permanent election campaign.

Inferring from this, "reforms are most likely to be carried out a long way from the next election date."

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The Federalism Commission started with the aim of curbing the permanent election campaign by redistributing or redistributing legislative competences and thus reducing the number of opportunities to block.

Other proposals concern the extension of legislative periods and the reduction of the number of federal states, for example by forming a northern state . In this way, factual policy should come back to the fore.

There is also discussion of merging the state elections of all federal states on one date. The problems here would again be the different lengths of legislative periods in the individual countries. They would have to agree on a common election date.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lars Holtkamp: Who is to blame for the debt? Causes of national and local budget deficits . In: Arthur Benz, Marian Döhler, Hans-Joachim Lauth, Susanne Lütz, Georg Simonis (eds.): Polis . No. 64 . Hagen 2007, p. 6 ( netbased-university.de [PDF]).
2. ^ Reimut Zohlnhöfer, Manfred G. Schmidt: Governing in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949 a balance . In: Governing in the Federal Republic of Germany . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-14344-6 , p. 513-525 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-90258-6_23 ( springer.com [accessed January 22, 2017]).
3. ↑ Reimut Zohlnhöfer: Globalization of the economy and national adjustment reactions. Theoretical considerations. In: Journal for International Relations . tape 1 . Nomos, June 2005, ISSN  0946-7165 , p. 41-76 ( nomos.de [PDF]).