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- Title
DOKUMENTATION UND ANALYSEN: Zur Öffentlichkeit des Petitionsverfahrens beim Deutschen Bundestag und beim Schottischen Parlament.
- Authors
Riehm, Ulrich; Coenen, Christopher; Lindner, Ralf
- Abstract
The Scottish Parliament pioneered the introduction of electronic petitions, and the German Bundestag has the distinction of having been the first national parliament to introduce such a system. These modernisations in terms of information and communication technology must each be considered in the context of differing institutional reforms of parliamentary petitioning. One particular focus of interest is the public nature of petitioning whose different aspects at the German parliament are scrutinized (access to the petition file, public nature of the committee meeting, information content of the decision bill for the plenum). Moreover petitioning in the Scottish and the German parliament is compared from the perspective of their public nature. Scotland basically offers a fundamental and comprehensive degree of public access in the entire petitioning procedure and its underlying documents, while Germany is cautiously opening towards more transparency but basically abiding by the non-public nature of petitioning.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; GERMANY; RIGHT of petition; GERMANY. Bundestag; LEGISLATIVE bodies; ELECTRONIC data processing; INFORMATION &; communication technologies; TRANSPARENCY in government
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2009, Vol 40, Issue 3, p529
- ISSN
0340-1758
- Publication type
Article