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Committed Democrats? How Trade-off Specific Cues Affect Expressions of Support for Liberal and Democratic Principles
Democratic stability depends on citizens’ willingness to support the application of liberal and democratic principles. Yet recent experimental...
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Schwerpunkt: Zustand und Zukunft von Verfassung und Rechtsstaat
Constitutions are subject to constant change. This is also desirable and necessary if a constitution is to endure in the long term. Particularly...
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Vom „rule of law revival“ zum „rule of law backsliding“: Ein Erklärungsversuch
Targeted attacks on the rule of law-side of constitutional democracy form a core part of the worldwide trend of “democratic backsliding”. To...
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Party fragmentation, political predispositions, and delayed voting decisions
Research has found that as the effective number of political parties increases, people are more likely to delay their voting decisions. Yet, since...
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Kontakt, Nähe, Vertrauen: Mobilisierungstechniken und -taktiken im Haustürwahlkampf der SPD zur Landtagswahl 2022 im Saarland
This article analyses the SPD’s doorstep campaign for the 2022 state election in Saarland. Based on the assumptions of the microsociological approach...
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‘The Kids don’t want reconciliation, they want Land Back’: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation
When Wet’suwet’en matriarch Freda Huson declared that ‘reconciliation is dead’ and called on supporters to ‘Shut Down Canada’, activists responded...
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How to use literature in political theory: five questions of methodology in ‘politics and literature’
Two influential but strangely separate bodies of research have emerged in the field of Politics and Literature. Either political theorists write...
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The impact of public opinion on voting and policymaking
This literature review investigates the effects of public opinion on political outcomes in democracies, focusing on Comparative Political Economy...
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Um der Freiheit willen: Der demokratische Rechtsstaat bleibt Europas Verfassungszukunft
Liberal democracies are in a state of democratic self-alienation due to multiple crisis events and the advance of authoritarianism. The usual crisis...
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Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformation
How can the world be improved if the people inhabiting it do not believe they can transform it? A belief in such political fatalism is an important...