TY - BOOK AU - Turner,Edward TI - Political parties and public policy in the German länder: when parties matter SN - 9780230284425 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Political parties KW - Germany KW - States KW - Political planning KW - Case studies KW - State governments N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Partisan influence upon public policy in decentralised polities -- Do parties matter in the German lander? theoretical and practical challenges, past attempts at exploration, and a new approach -- Contemporary German federalism -- Education, family and childcare, and labour market policies at a land level -- The case of Hesse 1999-2003 -- The Saarland 1999-2004 -- Saxony Anhalt 2002-2006 -- Conclusion ER -