Die Diätenfrage

Nikolaus Urban examines how German constitutional law and politics during the late empire and the Weimar Republic reacted to the changing conditions of parliamentary effectiveness, in a society that had undergone a fundamental political and industrial revolution since the foundation of the empire. Basing his study on the remuneration for members of parliament, he explores the changing image of members of parliament during a time when politics and parliamentary representation became professionalised, a process that met with considerable resistance not only from experts in constitutional law.