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- Title
Multidimensional Interests in Horizontal Intergovernmental Coordination: The Case of the German Bundesrat.
- Authors
Hegele, Yvonne
- Abstract
In the German Bundesrat, an arena of horizontal intergovernmental relations, sixteen L€ander governments composed of approximately 170 governmental departments coordinate and negotiate their positions on federal motions. This article analyzes the coordination process and argues that the interests that the actors pursue, as well as the coordination strategies stemming fromthese interests, are less clear-cut than commonly assumed. Based on a novel network dataset collected by the author, evidence is found for sectoral, political party, and territorial coordination strategies. The main findings are first, that political party coordination in Germany ismore frequent than territorial coordination but performs a structuring instead of a substantial function during the coordination process. Second, sectoral coordination mainly takes place at an early stage of the coordination process and is able to solve a bulk of coordination problems by drawing on expert knowledge.
- Subjects
GERMANY; FEDERAL-city relations; GERMAN politics &; government; POLITICAL parties; FEDERAL government; POLITICAL systems
- Publication
Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2018, Vol 48, Issue 2, p244
- ISSN
0048-5950
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/publius/pjx052