@article{2016:ley:wahl_der_m,
title = {Wahl der Ministerpräsidenten von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen und Thüringen von 1990 bis 2015},
year = {2016},
note = {The article analyzes the electoral law to become Prime Minister in the
new Länder with regard to similarities and differences and it
compares the regulations with the old German federal states. Therefore
the approach can be seen as an inner-German constitutional comparison
for a major scope, which is the participation of state parliaments in
constituting the state governments. Unlike, for instance, in the
constitutions of the southern German federal states, which were
adopted after the 2nd World War, the members of the five
constitutional conferences of the new Länder limited this core
element of parliamentary systems by involving the parliaments only in
the first step of forming a government, the election of the Prime
Minister. Instead they decided to establish new forms of a multi-stage
election procedure to rigorously work towards the election of a Prime
Minister. Altogether the settings and results of 40 elections of Prime
Ministers in the first quarter century of their being are documented
and analyzed. Thus the article makes an effort to understand
constitutional history of the new Länder and represents an important
aspect of establishing a democracy in the process of transition after
the German reunification.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {573--606},
author = {Ley, Richard},
volume = {47},
number = {3}
}