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Germany: chancellors and the bundestag

Historically, executive–legislative relations used to mark one of the least understood and most problematic areas of democratic politics in Germany. However, as in many other fields, the post-war period has seen the transformation of Germany's rather unimpressive historical legacy in the field of executive leadership and legislative politics into a respected model of democratic parliamentary government. Whereas the existing institutional parameters in place generally foster a cooperative style of legislative decision-making, the experience of the seven post-war chancellorships from Adenauer to Schröder to be covered in this article suggest that there remains considerable room for different styles of executive leadership in the parliamentary arena.