The Institute for Parliamentary Research (IParl) is an institution of the Foundation Science and Democracy. With the aim of anchoring and further developing the democratic order in society, the IParl is dedicated to researching democratic representation and legitimicy in its foundations as well as in its details. Particular emphasis is placed on realistic empirical research that contributes to communicating the complex governmental form of parliamentary democracy and has an practical impact in exchange with political actors and institutions.
broadly understood as the organisation of democratic representation, its relevant forms and functions, institutions and actors, rules and procedures.
both externally for the transfer of knowledge to society and internally for scientific research.
of parliaments, parties and civil society organisations as well as projects on good parliamentary practice.
We address questions relating to parliamentarism and related topics in our Research projects and/or Research topics. We aim to provide theoretically sound, empirically informed and practically relevant knowledge about parliamentarism that is also understandable outside the field of political science.
We address questions relating to parliamentarism and related topics in our Research projects and/or
Research topics. We aim to provide theoretically sound, empirically informed and practically relevant knowledge about parliamentarism that is also understandable outside the field of political science.
We share our findings in the context of science communication and via our Podcast to the public. The professional exchange with colleagues from the research community is facilitated by our Colloquium.
As an independent research organisation, we also see ourselves as a place for exchange with political practice. In this capacity, we have, among other things Mongolian government on questions of coalition formation as experts in dialogue with the ODIHR Election Observation Mission in Germany and have contributed to the preparation of Indicators of good parliamentary work by the Interparliamentary Union contributed.
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