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The salience of foreign affairs issues in the German Bundestag
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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:57 authored by Thomas Jäger, Kai Oppermann, Alexander Höse, Henrike ViehrigThere is an institutional as well as a cognitive dimension to the Bundestag's ability to shape German foreign policy. Existing analyses, however, have disregarded the cognitive preconditions for the Bundestag members to make use of their institutionalised powers. We have operationalised the cognitive dimension of parliamentary influence through the concept of issue salience, which refers to the importance an actor ascribes to an issue on the political agenda. The article presents the results of two consecutive surveys among all Bundestag members in which we have measured the salience of foreign policy issues with respect to three points of reference: the salience of (1) substantive issue areas, (2) Germany's bilateral relationships and (3) Germany's relations to international organisations.
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Parliamentary AffairsISSN
0031-2290Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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3Volume
62Page range
418-437Department affiliated with
- Politics Publications
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2013-10-03Usage metrics
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