@article{2018:loewenberg:the_bundes,
title = {The Bundestag in the 21st century: German parliamentarism on a new path},
year = {2018},
note = {In the face of its historic, tragic discontinuity, the revival of
German parliamentarism in the mid-20th century shows that
institutional development is not necessarily path-dependent.
Contingent factors shaped the revival. One contributing factor were
the Military Governors’ policies in Western Germany, who encouraged
the reestablishment of Germany’s self-government, licensed four
political parties and promulgated a Basic Law significantly different
from the Weimar Constitution. Another factor was that the new
parliament comprised only three effective parliamentary groups, which
developed practices that were shaped by a professionalized party
leadership. When new parties entered the Bundestag early in the 1980s,
it was to their advantage to accept these practices. At the beginning
of 21st century practices in the Bundestag are considerably different
from those before 1933.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {713--718},
author = {Loewenberg, Gerhard},
volume = {49},
number = {4}
}