Schulpolitik im deutschen Föderalismus

Nikolai, Rita

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-31237-4_19

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“…The reform to the federal system initiated in 2006 deepened the interlinkage between the federal government and the Länder in decision-making terms by creating a “network of joint decisions”, while at the same time strengthening the autonomous administrative competences of the regional governments (Sturm 2013 ). The result has been the growing fragmentation of regional education policies in Germany, most visible in the school system, which is characterised by a patchwork of diverse structures and regulations (Nikolai 2020 ), with only limited success in strengthening horizontal inter-regional cooperation through institutionalisation (Scheller 2020 ). The Covid pandemic has raised new questions about the efficiency of the interlinked system of cooperative governance in Germany’s multi-level system of governance.…”

Section: Germany and Hungary As Contrasting Cases Of National Governancementioning

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Governance under the Covid-19 pandemic: comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary

Schweiger

2022

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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By adopting a comparative approach between different regime types, the paper concentrates on Germany and Hungary as case studies for the comparative analysis of the effects the pandemic has had on national governance in the two countries which most strongly represent the growing cleavage between the EU’s liberal Western core and the illiberal Central-Eastern periphery. Methodologically the analysis follows the Most Different Systems Design and examines to what extent the Covid pandemic has functioned as a potential catalyser for the weakening of democratic governance in formerly solid democratic political systems and/or as an accelerator of democratic backsliding in hybrid regimes. For this purpose, the paper examines the process and the content of legislation passed domestically to contain the effects of the pandemic. The analysis shows that even under the stronger coordination of executive decision-making between the federal and regional government level, the foundations of legislative and judicial scrutiny remained resilient during the pandemic in Germany’s multi-level polity, while in Hungary central government has used the pandemic to substantially expand its executive powers at the expense of legislative and judiciary powers.

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Section: Germany and Hungary As Contrasting Cases Of National Governancementioning

confidence: 99%