Organisationsverfassung der Parlamente

Edited by Patrick Hilbert Edited by Julian Krüper Edited by Arne Pilniok

Book cover: Organisationsverfassung der Parlamente

Extent: 210 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: German Studies

Series: Beiträge zum Organisationsverfassungsrecht

Language: German

Paperback (Forthcoming)

(January 2027)

ISBN: 9783162008381

6.1 x 9.13 inches

Price: $120.00

Parliaments are central institutions of democracy. This volume explores selected aspects of their organizational constitution from both legal and political science perspectives. The contributions combine doctrinal analysis with empirical findings and historical insights.


Parliaments are central institutions of democracy: places of deliberation, negotiation, compromise-building, and representation. Today, they face a range of challenges, from political polarization and the digitalization of communication to changing expectations regarding transparency and legislative practice. Taking these developments as its point of departure, this volume offers an interdisciplinary examination of the organizational constitution of parliaments, bringing together perspectives from both legal scholarship and political science.
The contributions explore the structural conditions under which parliamentary compromises emerge, what parliamentary law reveals about the contemporary history of the Federal Republic of Germany, and how functionality and symbolism intersect in parliamentary architecture. They trace the legislative process from the initial idea to the promulgated federal statute, thereby looking far beyond the formal stages of lawmaking, and consider the extent to which the internal legislative process can serve as a subject of organizational constitutional law. The volume also examines the actors and infrastructures of parliamentary work, including the constitutionally protected autonomy of parliamentary groups, the scope of parliamentary disciplinary powers in response to “digital interjections,” and the role and transformation of parliamentary administrations.
The essays originate from the fourth interdisciplinary workshop of the Research Network on Organizational Constitutional Law. Combining doctrinal analysis with empirical findings and historical perspectives, they demonstrate the extent to which the effectiveness and legitimacy of parliamentary democracy depend on the organization, procedures, and infrastructure of parliaments.

Grundfragen
Michael Koß: Strukturbedingungen parlamentarischer Kompromisse - Pascale Cancik: Parlamentisierung und andere "-ungen": Parlamentsrecht als Zeitgeschichte - Michael Kolkmann: Parlamentsarchitektur zwischen Zweckmäßigkeit und Symbolik
Gesetzgebung
Sven T. Siefken / Philipp Cartier / Frederik Kampe: Kartografie der Gesetzgebung: Der lange Weg von der Idee zum Bundesgesetz - Nicholas Otto: Das innere Gesetzgebungsverfahren als Regelungsgegenstand des Organisationsverfassungsrechts?
Organisation und Verfahren der Parlamente
Bernd Grzeszick: Fraktionsautonomie - Laura Jung: Zur Reichweite der parlamentarischen Ordnungsgewalt bei "digitalen Zwischenrufen" - Horst Risse: Bedeutung und Wandel der Parlamentsverwaltungen

Patrick Hilbert (Herausgegeben von)
holds a chair for Public Law, particularly administrative law at the University of Münster.
Julian Krüper (Herausgegeben von)
holds the Chair of Public Law, Constitutional Theory and Interdisciplinary Legal Research at the Faculty of Law at Ruhr University Bochum.
Arne Pilniok (Herausgegeben von)
holds the Chair of Public Law, in particular Administrative Law and Legal Education, at FernUniversität in Hagen.

  • Edited by Patrick Hilbert
  • Edited by Julian Krüper
  • Edited by Arne Pilniok