Florian Grotz Books

The book provides a systematic introduction to Germany's political system, utilizing a uniform theoretical perspective that distinguishes between majoritarian and consensus democracy. It emphasizes the intricacies of political decision-making across multiple levels, including local, state, federal, and EU contexts. This approach offers readers a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the organization and functioning of German democracy, setting it apart from other textbooks in the field.

This book is dedicated to Joachim Jens Hesse, a scholar whose multi-faceted work may be characterised as an attempt at "crossing borders" in several respects. These primarily include fostering interdisciplinary cooperation between law, economics and social sciences, analysing public sector developments in an international and intercultural perspective as well as bridging the "gap" between academia and practical politics. Therefore, the volume deals with a subject that covers these features in an exemplary manner: the interrelationship between nation-state constitutions and their international environments. In this context, ongoing processes of transnationalisation have not only contributed to blurring the formerly clear-cut boundaries between these two domains, but also provoked a growing interest in and demand for comparative, interdisciplinary and applied research on constitutional developments.