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<\/span>About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The <\/em>Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Parlamentsfragen<\/em> <\/strong>(Journal of Parliamentary Issues) will appeal to academics in different fields, journalists, politicians, students and anyone interested in parliamentary issues. The main subjects it addresses are developments in the German Bundestag, and in the country\u2019s federal state and other parliaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although ZParl<\/strong><\/em> is conceived academically, it is not only produced for academics. It will also appeal to journalists, politicians and all students and agents of a complicated form of government which is nevertheless defendable and capable of changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZParl <\/strong><\/em>is therefore conceived in an accessible way. Like the American publication \u2018Congressional Quarterly\u2019, it publishes documents with relevant and clearly structured background information on current political issues and, like the British quarterly \u2018Parliamentary Affairs\u2019, it publishes academic essays and concise analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZParl<\/em> <\/strong>addresses all areas of politics which relate to questions of legitimation and representation. It focuses on national and federal state parliamentarianism, aspects of local politics, constitutional questions and problems relating to comparisons between international parliaments. It also examines parliamentary development in other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZParl<\/em> <\/strong>conveys academically sound and systematically structured information on politics, with documentation and analyses occupying the majority of space within it. In addition, each issue contains essays which consider important topics in depth and provide new food for thought. ZParl <\/strong><\/em>constantly provides a platform for discussion, while also presenting the latest works on general parliamentary issues and reviewing new publications on the main topics covered by each issue in the section \u2018Literaturteil\u2019. In the section \u2018Mitteilungen\u2019, ZParl <\/strong><\/em>provides information on seminars, discussion forums and lectures organised by the Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Parlamentsfragen (German Association of Parliamentary Issues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issues produced each year include an index of subjects and persons, which lends them the character of reference works on institutions and comparative politics. In the over forty years it has existed, ZParl<\/strong><\/em> has become a database which has contributed to chronicling the Federal Republic of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISSN Print 0340-1758
ISSN Online 1862-2534
Published quarterly<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/span>Editor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n