Ministerial portfolios are the most obvious payoffs for parties entering a governing coalition
in parliamentary democracies. This renders the bargaining over portfolios an important …

This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition
governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet …

Intergovernmental councils in Germany comprise 18 sectoral ministerial conferences and
the prime ministerial conference as peak organization. They complement the Bundesrat as …

The past few years have witnessed the emergence of new actors and ideas in agri-food
politics discussed under the heading 'post-exceptionalism'. Yet our knowledge about which …

Parliaments and governments function as problem-solving institutions for specific policy
domains. Due to the division of labour in governments, parties are interested in the stated …

This study employs structural topic modeling (STM) to quantitatively and for the first time
analyze parliamentary debates on agriculture and food in the German Bundestag, focusing …

Gamson's Law of office distribution tells us approximately how many ministries each
member of a coalition will receive. However, the question of which ministries are allocated to …

Scholars have increasingly argued for an integration of policies on agriculture and water
due to their strong interlinkage. The entry of agricultural pollutants into water represents one …

Zusammenfassung Die Landtagswahlen in Baden-Württemberg 2016 brachten eine neue
Koalitionsvariante auf Landesebene mit sich: Grün-Schwarz, eine von einem grünen …

While newer coalition theories take into account that parties are both office and policy
motivated, one problem remains unsolved: the fact that offices (ministries) and policies are …