Original Article
German Exceptionalism? An Empirical Analysis of 20 Years of Law and Order Legislation
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers and the editors at Politics & Policy for their very helpful comments. We are also grateful to Mathis Petri for helping with the coding of the German data and Kathrin Hartmann for performing the reliability test on the German data.
Abstract
enGerman law and order policies have been described as exceptional compared to other Western industrialized countries in that they seem to have been immune to a general trend toward increased toughness. However, recent studies have cast some doubt on this finding. The present article addresses this divergence and contributes to the literature in two respects. First, drawing on a new dataset on German federal legislation on law and order (1994-2013), we show that a slight trend toward tougher legislation is visible although talking about a “punitive turn” would be largely exaggerated. Second, we find that the explanation of this pattern is to be found in the peculiarities of the German political system which seems to have constrained any attempts to implement tougher policies: strong institutional veto points have hindered far-reaching proposals from being adopted and have pushed German law and order policies toward a middle way.
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