Parliamentary and Executive Politics

Abstract

How members of parliaments interact both with their peers and their counterparts in the public administration is a crucial factor determining policy-making and the functioning of parliamentary democracies. By communicating with old stagers from parliament and/or bureaucracy (incoming) delegates can not just enlarge their technical knowledge but additionally generate knowledge on internal processes, i.e. informal rules, working routines, and appropriate behaviour. The panel seeks to examine, first, internal processes of parliaments and ministerial bureaucracies in order to explain institutional stability or change over time and election terms, and second, conditions that lead to interaction within parliaments as well as towards administration. We will discuss theoretically and empirically based theories comparing/focusing on parliaments and administrations at the local, (sub-)state, or European level. We are interested in questions like: - How do everyday processes of parliaments and/or bureaucracies look like? - Are there specific socialisation-processes for new members in parliaments and/or bureaucracies? - (Why) do internal processes persist even high exchange rates after elections? - In what manner and to which extent do working contexts change? - Under which conditions do parliamentarians and bureaucrats interact? - How do legislative-administrative relations change in Europeanised policies?

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