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This chapter investigates the level of Europeanization of the German legislature and the consequences of Europeanization for the governmental–parliamentary relationship in the period from 1986 to 2005. Some authors fear an erosion of democratic control via Europeanization (i.e., Scharpf 1999; Zürn and Wolf 1999), and others quote the mythical number of an 80% influence of Brussels on the German legislature (Herzog 2007). In order to provide a comprehensive and reliable picture of the Europeanization rate of the German legislature, our empirical analysis includes all federal laws. It distinguishes between domestic and “internationalized” laws, which were introduced by different types of legislative actors (government, others) in the Bundestag. Focusing on domestic lawmaking, we provide two indicators for measuring and cross-validating the level of Europeanization of these laws, which cover almost 20 years of German legislative decision making in multiple policy areas. The cross-validity of the two indicators shall provide a reliable and comparable picture of the level of Europeanization, while the coverage of all policy areas should reduce the risk of a selection bias, which is common to area-specific studies of Europeanization.
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The correlation between the measure of EU impulse and EU keywords (Abstract) is 0.69; correlation between EU impulse and EU keywords (Full text) is almost 0.87; finally the correlation between EU keywords (Abstract) and EU keywords (Full text) is 0.64.
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The German laws were coded according to an adapted version of the policy classification scheme originally developed by Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones for the Policy Agendas Project.
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Due to the availability of the legislative full texts our third measure is limited to the time period between 1995 and 2005, the 13th to the 15th term.
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König, T., Mäder, L. (2012). Does Europeanization Change Executive–Parliament Relations? Executive Dominance and Parliamentary Responses in Germany. In: Brouard, S., Costa, O., König, T. (eds) The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures. Studies in Public Choice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1502-2_6
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