Politische Repräsentation und Partizipation / Rappresentanza politica e partecipazione

Abteilung – Ausschuss – Kommission – Fraktion

Formen und Funktionen parlamentarischer Repräsentation im Vormärz

Ewald Grothe

Abstract

In the national German parliaments of the Vormärz period, there were not yet any firmly established parliamentary groups, especially since no parties existed outside the parliament. Nonetheless, the members of the parliament got together in more or less organized and sometimes legally established bodies in the form of departments, commissions, and committees. Contacts within these bodies fostered communication, led to networking and thus to an ever more progressive politicization and political factionalization of the estates assemblies. The groupings and faction-like associations in the southern and central ...