Deparliamentarization

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Under de-parliamentarisation is meant basically that Parliament is losing importance in the political process. Representatives of Entparlamentarisierungsthese (also Entparlamentariesierungsmythos , Parliamentary Decline Hypothesis , The Golden Age of Parliement ) will usually assume that the parliament either in a given period more importance / influence / rights had when this is the case at present, or to the prominence of parliament in the constitution (or other formal rules) must also be reflected in a prominent role in day-to-day political affairs.

Causes of deparliamentarization can be, for example:

  • Transfer of competence to a supranational organization (example: EU )
  • Shifting of competencies to committees, commissions or round tables
  • Shift of competence in party and coalition bodies
  • Influence of lobbyism
  • in Germany: restrictions due to overlapping competencies in the federal system

The advocates of the deparliamentarization thesis are countered that a distinction must be made between a purely legal approach and a realistic political one. For example, the German Bundestag is named as a decision- making body in the Basic Law , but this does not imply that the decision on how to pass a decision is also made in that body.

literature

  • Tanja A. Börzel : Europeanization and domestic change. Centralization and deparliamentarization? . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 41/2, 2000, pp. 225–250.
  • Ehrenzeller: loss of function of parliament. De-parliamentarization of political decisions . in: NZZ of October 16, 2002, No. 240, p. 17. (State Political Forum).
  • M. Flinders, A. Kelso: Mind the Gap: Political Analysis, Public Expectations and the Parliamentary Decline Thesis . In: The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Blackwell Publishing Ltd: 13, 2011, pp. 249-268.
  • Paul Kirchhof : De-parliamentarization of Democracy? In: André Kaiser & Thomas Zittel (ed.): Theory of democracy and the development of democracy: Festschrift for Peter Graf Kielmansegg . Wiesbaden: VS Verl. Für Sozialwiss., 2004, pp. 359–376.
  • Roland Lhotta : Parliamentarism as a separation of powers: Institutional manifestations of complex democracy using the example of representation, government formation and legislation . In: Helmar Schöne & Julia von Blumenthal (eds.): Research into parliamentarism in Germany . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, pp. 259-278.
  • Ariane Richter: Functional change in the multi-level system? The role of national parliaments in the European Union using the example of the German Bundestag (=  European and International Law . Volume 91 ). Herbert Utz Verlag , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8316-4580-0 (Dissertation University of Munich 2016; table of contents in the Google book search, p. 51 ff. In the Google book search for deparliamentarization).
  • Eberhard Schuett-Wetschky : Government, parliament or parties: who decides who decides? In: Journal of Parliamentary Issues, 2005.
  • Eberhard Schuett-Wetschky: Endless criticism of parliamentarism? Party dissent and concepts of representation using the example of the critique of deparliamentarization and the division of powers . In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 15, 2005, pp. 3–33.

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