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- Title: Governing by Commission: A Way to More Effective Governance Or a Loss of Democratic Accountability?
- Author : German Policy Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 301 KB
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1 Introduction The different forms of political advice, its relevance for the decision-making process, and its normative implications have gained widespread academic attention. In Germany, this discussion has been particularly stimulated by the first and second German government led by Gerhard Schroder. Think tanks not being as common and as influential as in other countries like the United States, other institutionalized forms of permanent and temporal political consultancy have fostered the debate on the role political advice can and should play. Especially non-permanent commissions installed by the government as an instrument to prepare political decisions and/or to negotiate policies with private actors have become popular and raise questions concerning their practical relevance and their effect on the legitimacy of the democratic decision-making process. Schroder's so-called Council-Republic ('Rate-Republik') has been seen either as a means to come to a broad societal consensus to allow for necessary fundamental reforms (Steinmeier 2001) or as a threat to parliamentary democracy and the principle of political accountability (Papier 2003).
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