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- Title
DOKUMENTATION UND ANALYSEN: Öffentliche Petitionen beim Deutschen Bundestag. Ergebnisse einer Petentenbefragung.
- Authors
Riehm, Ulrich; Trénel, Matthias
- Abstract
Petitioning is one of the most important types of political participation. Yet, little is known about petitioners, their socio-demographic profile, their motivation and their assessment of the petitioning process. After the German Bundestag introduced public petitions that are submitted, signed and debated on the internet, a survey on 571 traditional as well as 350 public petitioners was carried out in 2007 as a part of a comprehensive evaluation study. Both petitioner samples display a higher than average degree of general political participation and internet use. Public petitioners are younger than traditional petitioners, but the group is still dominated by men and those with higher education to the same degree as among traditional petitioners. However, public petitions seem to meet petitioners' needs since most of them have proposals with implications for legislation rather than private matters and wish to present those in public. Considering that public petitions are still virtually unknown to the general public, their potential might be much greater than the current rate of use suggests.
- Subjects
GERMANY; RIGHT of petition; GERMANY. Bundestag; INTERNET surveys; POLITICAL participation; INTERNET users; HIGHER education
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2009, Vol 40, Issue 3, p512
- ISSN
0340-1758
- Publication type
Article