The impact of coalition parties on policy output – evidence from Germany

Hübscher, Evelyne

doi:10.1080/13572334.2019.1570599

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“…The SPD's entry into the cabinet constitutes a potential source of change in the policy course of German governments, creating the political conditions for moving from a conservative to a potentially more expansive policy approach. Even though Germany's domestic institutional framework considerably restricts the potential political influence of individual political parties due to its multiparty system favouring the formation of coalition governments (Lijphart, 2012;Schmidt, 1995), recent research has shown how between 1989 and 2009 the partisan composition of governments had substantial effects on their policy agendas (Hübscher, 2019).…”

Section: Political Alternation and Institutional Constraints In Germamentioning

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Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019)

Karremans

2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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Since the early 2010s, budgetary policy-making in EU member states has been subject to tighter European constraints. While recent research shows the relevance of intergovernmental negotiations for setting European policy priorities, little is known about how much political alternation in government still matters for national budgetary agendas. This paper investigates this question in Germany, one of Europe's most powerful and financially stable countries. Drawing on original data, the paper first shows how political alternation in German cabinets changes governments' budgetary agendas. Secondly, it shows how this alternation also influences the formulation and adoption of European policy recommendations. Based on these findings, the paper argues that governments in financially stable countries can pursue alternative policy agendas, but that these need to find consensus at both the national and European level. The range of alternatives is therefore inevitably contingent upon the national institutional framework and country's relative strength within the EU.

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Section: Political Alternation and Institutional Constraints In Germamentioning

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Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019)

Karremans

2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…These debates constitute the final and decisive stage of the budgetary policy process, in which the government needs to secure the support of its parliamentary majority (Bonafont et al ., 2015). These speeches are therefore an occasion for the government to make clear political statements about its preferred budgetary policy course (Hübscher, 2019) to an audience that not only includes the parliament majority and opposition but, through media reporting, also extends to international stakeholders and local constituencies. The institutional regularity with which these speeches happen, in turn, allows a comparison between the levels of responsiveness and responsibility across years and countries (Karremans and Damhuis, 2020).…”

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This Time Wasn't Different: Responsiveness and Responsibility in the Eurozone between 2007 and 2019

Karremans

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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This article investigates the balance between responsiveness and responsibility in France, Germany and Spain between 2017 and 2019. Based on the party-politics literature, the article argues that during crises responsibility may temporarily increase, but that subsequently governments need to base their actions on responsive policy criteria in order to maintain citizens' trust. Yet, given the dominance of austerity ideas during this decade and the introduction of a more stringent European fiscal framework, it is questionable whether responsiveness increased after the Eurozone crisis. Analysing original data from the yearly budget speeches of ministers of finance, the article finds that responsibility dominated budgetary policy-making in the early 2010s and that since 2014 responsiveness has increased, regardless of a country's financial situation. Furthermore, during the crisis responsibility tended to be higher under centre-right cabinets. The article portrays the early 2010s as an episode of 'politics in hard times' during which governments chose their policy response based on their ideas.

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“…Besides a central role of the subnational governments, which partly even act as negotiation partner of the sickness funds (Böhm et al., 2018), coalition negotiations have emerged as an arena of new institutional importance, given that the coalition treaty on which the governing parties agree after an election essentially determines the later policy (Hübscher, 2019). This leads to, first, a great identification of the governing parties with the reforms but, secondly, prevents major reforms due to the bargaining processes in the negotiations.…”

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The (mis)fit of policy programs to political institutions and its influence on programmatic action – How crisis has differently hit French and German health policy

Hornung

2021

European Policy Analysis

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The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) is a relatively new theoretical perspective that adds a complementary lens to the explanation of policy processes and policy change. Yet, a key requirement of a valid policy process framework is its capacity to be proven wrong. Besides the empirical cases that provide evidence for the occurrence of programmatic action, it is necessary to present examples in which programmatic action did not occur, and to explain why this is the case. Proceeding from the observation that programmatic groups and policy programs existed in French and German health policy throughout the 1990s, this contribution answers the question why in 2020, programmatic action is still present in France but not in Germany and why the German policy program did not survive the financial crisis of 2008. It argues that misfit to pre‐existing institutional logics and changing institutional logics in the course of programmatic action hinder program success.

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The impact of coalition parties on policy output – evidence from Germany

Cited by 4 publications

References 68 publications

Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019)

Political alternatives under European economic governance: evidence from German budget speeches (2009–2019)

This Time Wasn't Different: Responsiveness and Responsibility in the Eurozone between 2007 and 2019

The (mis)fit of policy programs to political institutions and its influence on programmatic action – How crisis has differently hit French and German health policy

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