Networking Security - Toward a New German Security Architecture.

This paper analyzes the reform of the Law on the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA Law). It does so by utilizing the Bureaucratic Politics Model (BPM). The paper argues that the BPM's stand-sit proposition and the resultant proposition have strong explanatory power. On the other hand, the bargaining proposition proves useful only to a certain extent. While interaction between bureaucratic actors surely was a crucial element of the decision-making process, the model's focus on the executive branch made it miss other actors that were also important for the reform of the BKA Law. This suggests that the explanatory power of the BPM would be further enhanced if domestic constraints on bureaucratic bargaining processes are systematically incorporated. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]