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Political conflict, political polarization, and constitutional compliance
While the economic approach to constitutions highlights their contribution to resolving conflict, recent work on the de jure – de facto distinction in...
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Introducing Academic Freedom in Constitutions: a new global dataset, 1789–2022
The Academic Freedom in Constitutions dataset is a new resource that empirically maps constitutional guarantees of the freedom of science, of...
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Truth and its political forms: an explorative cartography
For some years now, the significance of truth for politics has been intensely debated under the buzzword “post-truth.” However, this cannot hide the...
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Political Freedom Pluralism, Unity, and the Civil Order
The purpose of this work is to discuss and explain the nature of political freedom. The approach is interdisciplinary, drawing from social theory,...
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State capacity, economic freedom, and classical liberalism
This paper evaluates state capacity from the perspective of classical liberalism, especially the relationship of state capacity to economic freedom....
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Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?
We provide the first systematic research into the origins of subjective freedom of speech in Germany. Relying on the GLES 2021 Cross-Section...
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Develo** Political Trust at Work: How Socialization Experiences in the Workplace Reduce Inequalities in Political Trust
Political trust is considered important for the stability of democratic political systems. However, there are large inequalities in political trust...
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Endogenous preferences: a challenge to constitutional political economy’s normative foundation?
This paper starts with the observation from behavioral economics that preferences are endogenous, i.e., they are unstable, context-dependent, and...
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Militant conversion in a prison of the mind: Malcolm X and Spinoza on domination and freedom
The Autobiography of Malcolm X highlights the eponymous subject’s conversion from aimless rage and criminality to a form of militant study while in...
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A democracy assessment in Türkiye within the context of law-political perceptions of jurists and politicians
In this study, an attempt will be made to draw a general framework on the main characteristics of democracy in Türkiye by identifying both the...
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Virtue, Freedom, and Political Rule in David Milch’s Deadwood
Deadwood’s(2000s television series) Milch, David treatment of political rule contains important reflections on the unity of the soul and its...
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Political clientelism and democracy in Turkey
Political clientelism refers to a socio-political structure and set of relations formed by the reciprocal and personal exchange acts that the patrons...
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Political Parties
The chapter aims to map how Czech political parties worked with ideologies and roles in their electoral programmes and whether they changed after the...
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Freedom of Movement
Using comparative data from EXCEPTIUS combined with a focus on some typical country cases, this chapter compares the different restrictions to...
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Political elites and the democratic duty to trust the people
Political trust is usually construed in the terms of political elites’ duty to be trustworthy. This paper makes a modest yet radical claim,...
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Growth models and the comparative political economy of Europe
The growth model (GM) programme in comparative and international political economy attempts to do three things. First, it encourages a dialogue...
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Why and when democracies ban political parties: a classification of democratic state orientations to party bans
Defending democracy requires undemocratic steps; one of the most radical is the prohibition of political parties. The functioning of political...
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Political Freedom and Social Justice
This chapter completes the discussion by exploring the implications the norm of political freedom has for social justice. The argument is that the...