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Members of Parliament Studies
Sociological studies on members of parliament and projects on political representation are core issues of political science at the Social Research Center Berlin (WZB) and part of the research center’s democracy and electoral studies. Since 1989 we have been carrying out comparative projects on members of parliaments and political representation.
Workshop and book project
Cooperative project with 13 East European democracies.
Subject Matter
This project tests empirically the hypothesis that the delegation of authority to supranational organizations and the pursuant loss of national competencies leads to politicization of the respective organization. Further, we test the competing hypothesis that an increasing degree of politicization over time is a consequence of societal modernization.
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Project Description
This project is a joint undertaking of the WZB research units, “Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges” (DSL) and “Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions” (TKI). It is based on a representative survey of the German population on cross-border problem perceptions and assigning the responsibility to take action to national, transnational and international institutions. More specifically, the question under investigation is to what extent and for what reasons the citizenry increasingly confers the responsibility for solutions to urgent problems on international political institutions and organizations.
Three aspects stand in the forefront as motivational factors for this undertaking: