Bundesverfassungsgericht und Parlamentarismus

What understanding of parliamentarianism acts as the premise for the Federal Constitutional Court when it strengthens the rights of the Bundestag? This study offers a systematic review of case law on the subjects of parliamentary law, the German military’s foreign missions and voting law. It shows how the court deals with the conflicting patterns of the parliamentary system of government: individual MPs integrated into the group principle, the functionality of parliament under full representation, public resolutions under informal decision-making. The book’s theory-based political science text analysis of 25 rulings reveals the court’s remarkable ambivalence regarding the structural principles of parliamentarianism as a party democracy and points to differences and lines of development of the various topics.