The Heat is on in the German Bundestag: Coalitions, Conflicts, and Consequences of “Hot Politics”
By Sven T. Siefken, German Federal University
The German Bundestag is one of the strongest and most influential parliaments. It exists in a political system with a uniform parliamentarization. Decision making builds on a policy-based division of labor among Members of Parliament (MPs), where political parties have an important organizing role. The polity is stable, but politics has changed significantly in recent years. The concept of the “temperature of politics” (Sartori Reference Sartori2005/1976) helps to explain these developments in Parliament.
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- PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 2025