Thomas Gschwend, Oliver Rittmann, Lisa-Marie Werner
{"title":"Zwischen Wahlkreisreduzierung und Bürgernähe: Zur aktuellen Reformdiskussion des Wahlrechts in Baden-Württemberg","authors":"Thomas Gschwend, Oliver Rittmann, Lisa-Marie Werner","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-611","url":null,"abstract":"Discussions on the reform of the electoral law have so far mostly been conducted without the perspective of the sovereign . Therefore, given the current reform discussion and the change of the electoral law in Baden-Württemberg, we examine whether reducing the number of electoral districts leads citizens to perceive the relationship between citizens and representatives as less close . This concern is often cited as an argument against increasing the size of electoral districts . Already now, the electoral districts of the Landtag Baden-Württemberg vary in size . This allows us to analyze whether citizens perceive the relationship between representatives and themselves to be closer in smaller districts . We analyze this question based on the data of the “Demokratie-Monitoring Baden-Württemberg 2016/2017” . 2 .501 respondents from all electoral districts answered questions on their perceived political responsiveness and satisfaction with democracy, which allows us to measure the closeness of the relationship between representatives and citizens, at least indirectly . Our results and model calculations show that respondents in larger districts do not feel more distant to their representatives than respondents in smaller districts . Our results are consistent with similar studies at the federal level . Thus, we conclude that reducing the number of electoral districts can be a sensible remedy against an undesirably large parliament .","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135783591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REZENSIONEN","authors":"","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-698","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136203692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MITTEILUNGEN","authors":"","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136202011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Probleme politischer Repräsentation. Carlo Mongardini und der Beitrag der italienischen Politikwissenschaft","authors":"Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-679","url":null,"abstract":"To what extent does contemporary political science successfully approach political representation with regard to power – that is, in terms of a relationship of domination? The Italian sociologist and political scientist Carlo Mongardini (1938 – 2021) can be considered one of the last adherents of a “classical mindset” in Italian political science focusing on power, its configuration and allocation . For Mongardini political representation is “the highest political formula” that has emerged in modern history . It is, namely, the instrument par excellence by which the relationship of domination between the rulers and the ruled that emerged out of the end of the Ancien Régime takes place . Only a detailed analysis of such relationship’s transformations makes it possible to understand the contemporary challenges to political representation . Along with Mongardini, this paper aims to draw an analytical thread for the study of political representation as it summarizes its basic configuration and the central features of its transformation up to the present .","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136202863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parlamentswahlen nach dem doppelt-proportionalen Sitzzuteilungs- verfahren im Lichte der territorialen Repräsentation. Eine empirische Annäherung an ein konzeptionelles Dilemma","authors":"Sandro Lüscher","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-571","url":null,"abstract":"The “doppelter Pukelsheim”, as the biproportional divisor method with standard rounding is colloquially called, enjoys great popularity in Switzerland . For good reason: the new method of distributing parliamentary seats among the parties better reflects the will of the voters than conventional PR-based methods . However, the formula, which was used for the first time in 2007 for the cantonal elections in Zurich, has a mathematical property that works against a fair representation of local electorates . Specifically, unequal participation rates and unequal proportions of eligible voters in the constituencies subtly lead to unequal influence of the individual constituencies on the overall result . On the basis of the Zurich municipal elections 2022 and the Graubünden cantonal elections 2022, I explain why this is problematic and then show how the representation of the constituency electorates could be optimized with a minimal intervention in the calculation formula . The evaluation shows that, in both cases, seat shifts between the parties occur . This can be explained to a large extent by the different mobilization of the constituency electorates and only to a lesser extent by the different proportions of eligible voters in the constituencies . Furthermore, initial evidence suggests that these seat shifts are not random but are related to the demographics of the party electorates .","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136202269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zum Reformbedarf bei der Personalwahl in den Wahlkreisen: Anmerkungen zur umstrittenen Wahlrechtsänderung","authors":"Jakob Möhring","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-596","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2023, the German Bundestag passed legislation to reform the electoral law with the votes of the governing coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP to prevent the parliament from growing beyond its regular number of seats . Contrary to an initial draft bill from January 2023, the base mandate clause (Grundmandatsklausel) was also abolished, not only overhang seats and compensatory seats . This amendment, which was included in the bill at short notice, reduces the electoral chances of smaller parties with regional strongholds . It therefore prevented support from the Left party and any conceivable agreement with the CDU/CSU . Passing an electoral system into law with only a simple parliamentary majority calls for particular attention that the new system is equally fair for all parties . The impression that tactical political considerations may have influenced the governing parties jeopardizes the acceptance of this controversial electoral law reform . The abolishment of the base mandate clause impairs the democratic principle of representing the political will expressed in an election . This major legislative change is neither justified by the logic of the new electoral system, nor is it directly related to the declared aim of reducing the number of seats in the Bundestag . Without comparable compensation the electoral reform remains open to constitutional challenge . The reform refrains from clarifying the legislative role of an electoral system combining personal and proportional representation . The disputes about overhang seats and the base mandate clause shows, however, that personal representation within the electoral system is in need of reform .","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136202857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geschäftsordnungsrecht aus Karlsruhe?","authors":"Horst Risse","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136203091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Private Politikfinanzierung: Rechtslage und Regelungsbedarf","authors":"Emma Kück, Simon Meyer","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-625","url":null,"abstract":"Private political financing is protected by constitutional law . Private persons supporting political parties by donations, sponsoring or other financial instruments exercise their fundamental right to political participation . However, private political financing carries the risk of an excessive influence of financially strong citizens and companies potentially affecting democratic equality . The legislator resolves the tension between the conflicting constitutional interests not by a complete ban of donations to political parties, but by obligations of transparency and partial prohibitions of accepting donations . Nevertheless, due to the relatively high publicity limit and the non-consideration of alternative financing opportunities, such as sponsoring, there remain loopholes in the law on political parties enabling a circumvention of donation rules .","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136203411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frankreichs Parteiensystem im Umbruch","authors":"Udo Kempf","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-638","url":null,"abstract":"Until 2017 “two blocks” dominated the French political party system . Alternative governments of the left and of the bourgeois-conservative camp have alternated since the 1960s . Due to the drastic losses of the traditional parties as Les Républicains as well as the Socialists and the electoral successes of the liberal-conservative Macron supporters, the supporters of the radical right-wing Le Pen’s movement and the left-wing socialist party under Jean-Luc Mélenchon there has been a new development towards an asymmetry . Since the most recent parliamentary elections in 2022, one can speak of a tripolar system: Alongside Macrons La République en Marche (now Renaissance), the right-wing Rassemblement National under Marine Le Pen and the left-wing group La France Insoumise under Jean Luc Mélenchon . The once dominant parties of the Fifth Republic still exist, but are only a shadow of themselves .","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136203075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hinweise für Autoren","authors":"","doi":"10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2023-3-737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":486211,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136202003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}