INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Minority Government, Nord Stream, Upper House
14 Oct 2020
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Classical liberal democratic theory: government merely does the bidding of parliament. Does not represent reality (turned full circle? parliaments as rubber-stampers?) Little sense to see parliament and government as two distinct bodies. Members of government can also be in the parliament. Domination of political parties on both sides", government can normally expect all their proposals to be approved. Parliament s work built around the various party groups. Leaders of the fraktionen form a council of elders" pre-structures all the debates, allocates speaking time in advance hardly any scope for spontaneous action. Each fraktion decides which mp goes into which committee. Mps in the committees as agents of the ppg, mps follow an agreed line. Mps are strongly oriented to their party group. Parliaments dominated by party blocks, every parliament is to a greater or lesser degree a fraktionenparlament. Constraints imposed by parliament on government have 4 possible sources:
