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- Title
Zusammenhalt im Bundesstaat? Bundesfreundliche und opportunistische Argumentationsstrategien in der Pandemie.
- Authors
Kropp, Sabine; Nguyen, Christoph; Souris, Antonios
- Abstract
Federal Cohesion in Times of Crisis? Opportunism and Cooperation in State-Level Plenary Debates on Covid-19 This contribution focuses on the discursive strategies in the political debate on the federal management of the Covid-19 crisis in Germany. It scrutinizes the extent to which sub-national actors make use of federal structures to pursue opportunistic discursive strategies and how they refer to the cooperative, solidary norms of “comity” (Bundestreue). For the empirical analysis, the study draws on parliamentary debates in the 16 regional parliaments in Germany and analyzes which arguments the speakers use to legitimize the measures against Covid-19. The arguments are captured through a novel dataset that contains 4,360 statements made in 202 parliamentary debates between February 2020 and September 2021. The data reveal partisan differences that cannot be solely reduced to the government-opposition divide. The analysis shows that while norms of comity inherent in cooperative federalism can constrain opportunistic strategies, they do not prevent them – especially when the public support of the measures against Covid-19 declines.
- Subjects
GERMANY; COHESION; COVID-19 pandemic; OPPORTUNISM (Political science); COOPERATIVE federalism; POLITICAL doctrines; CRISIS management; INTERNATIONAL relations; PUBLIC support; COVID-19; POLITICAL debates
- Publication
Der Moderne Staat, 2022, Vol 15, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1865-7192
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3224/dms.v15i1.05