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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Formation of Vertical and Horizontal Regional Relationships in Postwar Germany

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16530080
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

KITAZUMI Keiichi  Nagoya University, Graduate School Of Law, Professor, 法学研究科, 教授 (20100901)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
KeywordsPostwar Germany / Occupation / Basic Law / Federal Government / State Government / Herrenchiemsee Conference / Parliament Council / Federalism
Research Abstract

1. My research is aimed at analyzing the formation of the postwar German federal system. In order to do research on this problem I paid attention to the vertical and horizontal relationships between the federal government and the state government. From such point of view I considered the role of the different actors, for example the political parties, the different governments during military occupation, state prime ministers in the process of the enactment of the Basic Law in 1949. The main targets in this research are (1) the process of forming the second chamber and (2) the discourse on federalism in postwar Germany. I collected original documents touching on these issues in German archives in August 2005.
2. I published a paper entitled 'The Formation of the German Second Chamber' in June 2004. In this paper I described differences and similarities between federal systems in the Frankfurt Constitution, the Second German Empire Constitution and the Weimar Constitution from the path dependency viewpoint. In addition I analyzed concepts of federal representative system of parties and the compromise process as regarding the second chamber during the debate on the Basic Law. Through this research the historical causality of the formation of the second chamber in relation to the postwar political situation, bureaucracy and party politics was elucidated.
3. After finalizing the paper I turned the research focus to the discourse on federalism in postwar Germany. I investigated the ideas of federalism that developed out of the interaction between Konrad Adenauer in his term as the president of the Parliamentary Council discussing the Basic Law, the Social Democratic Party president Kurt Schumacher, and Lucius Clay, head of the US Military government in Germany. I also worked through a large amount of material concerning discourse surrounding federalism in postwar German. I am planning to complete a paper about 'Discourse around Federalism under German Occupation'.

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2005

All Journal Article (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 戦後ドイツにおける連邦参議院の成立2005

    • Author(s)
      北住炯一
    • Journal Title

      名古屋大学法政論集 208号

      Pages: 54

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Formation of the German Second Chamber2005

    • Author(s)
      Keiichi Kitazumi
    • Journal Title

      Nagoya University Journal of Law and Politics

      Pages: 1-54

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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