This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the organisation, tasks, operation and function of Germany’s Federal Chancellery and its Federal Government as well as the Federal Chancellery’s cooperation with the federal ministries. This seventh edition of the handbook has been revised, updated and reorganised, and new sections on the Federal Government Commissioner for Digital Affairs,
... [Show full abstract] created in the 19th legislative term, and on the new Directorate-General for Digital Policy and Strategic IT Management have been added. To aid in understanding how the executive constitutional structures work, the handbook addresses issues concerning the parliamentary system of government and decision-making processes within the Federal Government. But the handbook is also intended to provide a closer look at the practical, everyday workings of government, with a focus on the Federal Chancellor’s role, as defined in constitutional law, and his or her authority to issue guidelines, to organise and to manage.
