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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Germany’s Dual Constitution: Parliamentary Democracy in the Federal Republic by Florian Meinel
This book argues that the German constitutional system can only be fully understood as a dual structure combining 2 layers. The first layer is the basic administrative institutional structure comprised of federal institutions. The second layer is that of parliamentary democracy. It is the interplay between the 2 as mediated by the chancellery the major political parties and the Federal Constitutional Court which lies at the heart of the German constitutional arrangement. An updated translation of its impactful German edition this provides one of the most brilliant introductions to governmental systems of one of the world’s most influential states.