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Curtailing political short-termism in legislatures: a trade-off between influence and institutionalization?

to MPs without endangering the existing division of power. Finding this balance enhances the consolidation of legislative future organs, but it simultaneously limits their conventional political impact. ... -level policymaking, political executives have carried out most of this activity, and expert-driven governmental foresight units can now be found on all continents [ 43, 46 ]. However, as scholars of

To Belong: Feeling “At Home” and Support for Democracy

political behavior. It also offers insight into the ways that societal integration in the form of belonging can develop among young democratic citizens: through feeling integrated into a range of social ... -known predictors such as socio-economic status and social capital. Our analysis stands to inform scholarship on democratic values and to illuminate the implications of belonging for political behavior. It

“This Thing Is a Joke”: How Working-Class Young Americans Make Meaning out of Politics in an Era of Distrust and Isolation

This paper examines how working-class young adults construct their political identities in the wake of the decline of mediating institutions such as stable work, unions, nuclear family structures ... economic decline, emotional despair, and political realignment. While working-class young adults may inherit political beliefs from their parents, growing up in a time of economic precarity and social

Social Integration Through Conflict: Mechanisms and Challenges in Pluralist Democracies

, Bernard Manin and Jose L. Marti. 2010 . The Place of Self-Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy . Journal of Political Philosophy 18 : 64 - 100 . Mason , Lilliana. 2018. Uncivil Agreement ... . Offe , Claus. 1998 . “ Homogeneity” and Constitutional Democracy: Coping with Identity Conflicts through Group Rights . Journal of Political Philosophy 6 : 113 - 141 . Pappi , Franz Urban . 2002 . Die

Social Integration: Conceptual Foundations and Open Questions. An Introduction to this Special Issue

Is the social integration of contemporary Western societies at risk? We will not provide an answer to this question, which is high on the political agenda. Instead, in our introduction to this ... ) published a special issue in this very journal on this exact topic, the question of social integration has resurfaced as a hot topic in public, political and social-scientific debate. In recent decades

“Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies

“Autonomous weapon systems” (AWS) have been subject to intense discussions for years. Numerous political, academic and legal actors are debating their consequences, with many calling for strict ... widely used in philosophy, psychology, human cognition and other disciplines and carries (often contested and contradictory) meanings that range from anthropocentric understandings to political contexts or

Social Integration – Levels and Dimensions

abstinence from values. Sociology hardly offers an independent reflection and theoretical competence with regard to values. This is left to (political) philosophy. Thus, the extensive empirical research on ... and Zürn 2021) . Discussions in political philosophy revolve around the question of how to solve the conflicting relationship between the two theorems, without, of course, offering a convincing

What We Have Learned About Social Integration: Conclusion

political discussions around social cohesion within a well-established research tradition that lends itself to empirical–analytical investigation. To this end, and based on Uwe Schimank’s groundwork, we have ... her interviewees’ social isolation and individualised coping strategies—foster political disengagement and susceptibility to conspiracy theories, alienating them from overarching collective points of

The Mammoth prophecies: a role-playing game on controversies around a socio-technical innovation and its effects on students’ capacities to think about the future

This article reports on a political game played between November 2021 and February 2022 at a European university in the frame of an elective course open to students from all disciplines. It started ... discuss whether the Mammoth game had a positive effect on students' abilities to think about the future. Introduction Political games are simulations of political processes that have as their primary

A New Social Conflict on Globalisation-Related Issues in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective

opinion polarisation are key conditions for a successful and sustainable political mobilisation of citizens and thus for the emergence of a social conflict. In line with globalisation cleavage theory, we ... have been facing increasingly successful political mobilisation against globalisation. Globalisation refers to the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in its economic

There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

Politicizing the future: on lithium exploration in Portugal

proposes that political action that involves large sociotechnical ventures with the potential of contamination needs to consider the local collective perceptions of the future. ... . Javiera Barandiarán [ 8 ] explains that governments need to legitimize political programs based on science and technologies. Therefore, new totalizing imaginaries around the undertakings can emerge

The Change of Motives to Become and to be a Party Member. An Empirical Analysis of the German Party Membership Studies 1998, 2009 and 2017

structure of political parties. The supply-side mechanism should lead to changes in the motives of potential members, whereas the demand-side mechanism alters the incentives potential and current members are ... · F. Springer Department of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover Schneiderberg 50 , 30167 Hannover , Germany 2 L. Czeczinski Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen Platz des Landtags 1 , 40221

Religious Diversity, Islam, and Integration in Western Europe—Dissecting Symbolic, Social, and Institutional Boundary Dynamics

could officially be released owing to large numbers of answer refusals; for political background see Glaese (2021). For background of the French Republican and color-blind approach to official statistics ... the receiving society’s cultural, social, and political systems, and to the receiving society’s degrees of solidarity and cohesion that result from these processes. The literature has repeatedly been

Rechtspopulismus

S. Hutter); Temporary disenfranchisement: negative side-effects of lowering the voting age, American Political Science Review, 2023 (mit M.-L. Sohnius, S. Roßteutscher, T. Faas und A. Schäfer ... ); Electoral Participation, Political Disaffection, and the Rise of the Populist Radical Right. Party Politics, 2022. (mit J. Schulte-Cloos).

Seven Decades of Gender Differences in German Voting Behavior

estimates at the aggregate level but might overestimate the gender gap for more radical parties such as the AfD (Alternative for Germany). Political sociology; Modern gender gap; Germany; Survey bias; Social ... Wahlstatistik 1 Introduction Gender gaps in politics matter for the political arena and people’s private lives. For political parties, gender imbalances in the electorate can make gender equity more of a party

Thoughts on Integrating Evolutionary Analysis into Sociological Action Theory

-IQ interaction hypothesis, intelligence correlates negatively with nationalism, even when controlling for standard variables in political science. Although Kanazawa does not necessarily intend to ... : Evidence from a field experiment . PLOS ONE 17:e0262476. Hempel , Carl G., and Paul Oppenheim . 1948 . Studies in the logic of explanation . Philosophy of Science 15 : 135 - 175 . Kahneman , Daniel. 2011

Der „Algorithmic turn“ in der Plattform-Governance.

Methods & Research 50 ( 1 ): 3 - 44 . Binns , Reuben. 2018 . Fairness in Machine Learning: Lessons from Political Philosophy . Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 81 : 149 - 159 . Binns , Reuben ... Discursive, Political, and Technological Positioning of Algorithms and AI as a “Technological Fix” for Complex Challenges Abstract The governance of platforms has become a central topic of public and political

Discriminatory Residential Preferences in Germany—A Vignette Study

and political–economic structure differs from the US context. Germany has an open-door policy toward asylum seekers (the right to asylum and freedom of movement) and advanced immigration and migration ... , Michael D. M. , and Maria Krysan . 2015 . Community attraction and avoidance in Chicago: What's race got to do with it? Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 660 : 261 - 281