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adopting a transdisciplinary, lifeworld (Lebenswelt) and political culture perspective, social science can contribute to this task and also help to overcome the fragmentation of the research field. In this ... networks; c) Far right extremist discourses, (digital) media, and strategies in the public sphere; and d) political education, transfer, and implementation research regarding projects against far right
In which ways and under what conditions do the procedural and economic performance of political systems matter for citizens’ political trust? While this question has been a recurring theme in
political polarisation. Considering the fact that within a polarised society only one solution can be the leading one, the society and the state, both internally and externally, have become extremely divided ... this article is to analyse the dysfunctionalities of Polish democracy that has seen the stability of the power-opposition system disturbed; and society left suffering under the totality of political
. Voegelin’s religiously impregnated philosophy of history remained alien to him. Parsons’ structural-functionalism, on the other hand, had a lasting influence on his view of the functional equivalents of ... subject of the political scientist’s research. In 1965, for example, Klaus von Beyme wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic of “Political Sociology in Tsarist Russia”, which seems exotic today, and in 2016
studies and contribute to ongoing efforts to promote replication initiatives in the education of future political scientists. ... , University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden 1 Daniel Korell Copenhagen Business School , Copenhagen , Denmark 2 Lars Lott Institute of Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
The article explores the role of political parties in hybrid regimes in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkans have been marked by considerable variations in democracy ratings over the past decades ... region feature deeply entrenched political parties, that draw on either their socialist legacies, anti-communist profile, or the representation of a particular demographic, as well as their control over
Given the worldwide stagnation or even regression of democratization processes, autocratic regimes continue to pose a challenge for political science. In this regard, the merit of an original ... . Blumenberg , Hans. 2006 . Arbeit am Mythos . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. Bottici , Chiara. 2007 . A philosophy of political myth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brooker , Paul. 2014 . Non-democratic
Tunisia’s political system suffers from recurrent problems with governability and proportionality. A volatile party landscape, frequent cabinet reshuffles, and political gridlocks repeatedly ... spectrum, coalitions with and against Ennahda are costly to all parties involved, worsening the overall quality of political representation. By analyzing the trajectory of major and minor electoral reforms
how should representatives represent citizens' varying and changing needs and preferences? These are three of many fundamental questions regarding political representation, which lies at the heart of ... contemporary models of democracy. The 27 contributions in Maurizio Cotta's and Federico Russo's edited “Research Handbook on Political Representation” provide answers to these questions-and to many, many more
What are the strategies of political parties in multi-level government systems and how do voters respond to these strategies? At the national and state level, many researchers have worked with data ... local level, these standard components of the political science toolbox are not available to researchers in many countries-including Germany. The absence of these data means that politics at the local
and Development Party (AKP), which has been in power in Turkey for more than two decades, has brought about significant political, institutional, and social changes. In contrast to the first decade of ... been focused on the AKP’s role, in this article I approach the autocratization of Turkey’s political sphere by examining the role played by the opposition, focusing in particular on the main opposition
Does the expectation of a close race drive more people to vote? Despite increasingly intensified electoral competition and hardened fronts at all political levels over the last decades, a decline in ... political science ever since. Especially with the rise of democracy during the previous century (Huntington 1991) and again with the backlash trend to semi-democratic structures in some countries within the
Democratic systems are currently facing multiple challenges. A central component of this is the disintegrating relationship between citizens and political actors; citizens simply do not feel ... political actors; citizens simply do not feel represented by political actors any longer. As a result, we are seeing a decline in trust in politicians, increasing questioning of whether democracy is still the
six Western European countries between February and October 2020 we show that PRRP frame the pandemic as a domestic political crisis attacking primarily national political elites. While PRRP ... Political Science, Leuphana University , Lüneburg , Germany 1 Belén Fernández-García Department of Political Science, Public International Law and Procedural Law, Faculty of Law, University of Málaga
political systems and/or as an accelerator of democratic backsliding in hybrid regimes. For this purpose, the paper examines the process and the content of legislation passed domestically to contain the ... , Faculty of Philosophy, Chemnitz University of Technology , Thüringer Weg 9, 09126 Chemnitz , Germany By adopting a comparative approach between different regime types, the paper concentrates on Germany
holds the society of a liberal democracy together? A necessary common, explicitly political identity seems inevitably fragile under these conditions. Thus, the central question, then, is whether this ... dysfunctionalities that endanger current liberal democratic orders and, if so, how to ground a functional model of democratic political identity. To this end, the paper shows, first, that the current identity crisis
has multiple causes. The militarization of political groups, when combined with other conditions, plays a major part in the process. Other causal factors are political transition, extreme poverty ... the militarization of political actors, an extremely low per-capita income, a lack of societal cohesion based on precolonial identities and factionalist politics, recent political transition and a
identifies where they are commonly established. The review then illuminates the strategic considerations of political parties, detailing why tolerating a minority government can be more advantageous than ... . Bergman , Torbjörn. 1993 . Constitutional design and government formation: the expected consequences of negative parliamentarism . Scandinavian Political Studies 16 ( 4 ): 285 - 304 . von Beyme , Klaus
This study examines the policy preferences of political groups in the 8th European Parliament regarding the design of agricultural policy and the integration of environmental goals therein. Due to ... political groups changing against the background of the increasing public awareness for environmental and animal welfare issues in agricultural policy? By means of a discourse network analysis of the plenary
