Decoding Laboratory Federalism through the Lens of Legislative Debate – Evidence from Germany

• In Event: Local Institutions and Local Governance

Brief Overview

In this contribution, we seek to understand patterns of laboratory federalism by examining legislative debates. The research builds on a new text corpus of all legislative speeches in German state parliaments between 2000 and 2023.

Authors

• Antonios Souris, Free University of Berlin

• Christoph Giang Nguyen, Freie Universität Berlin