GOVT-130 FA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Paul Tillich, Question Hour, Advocacy Group
6 Dec 2016
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The center of the policy-making process in the german political system is the bundestag, the lower house. The election and control of the federal government (both the chancellor and the cabinet) The function of electing half of the membership of the federal constitution court. Special responsibilities for supervising the bureaucracy and the military. The bundestag has 662 members elected at least every four years and they are the only directly elected political officials in the german constitutional structure. Prior to 1949, parliamentary governments in the german political experience had both a weak tradition and a poor record of performance. Its primary source of influence was its power of the purse. Policy-making process in the reichstag had little initiative in the political process; defensive and reactive in its position towards the government but at the same time had very little parliamentary control over the government.
