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Attitudes towards capital punishment are compared in the German population over time. Whereas the proponents of capital punishment were in the majority in the 1950s and 1960s, they are a small minority nowadays. Subsequent questions addressed to the...
In his lecture series on the »History of Governmentality«, Foucault demonstrates how preventive measures, risk management, and the governance of populations – collectively, security techniques – have become central to modern statecraft....
The 2022 energy crisis, triggered by the halt of Russian gas and oil supplies in February 2022, confronted the German government with the challenge of balancing social affordability, economic stability, and ecological sustainability—the so-called...
To characterize the past and current challenges for British politics and society the term »crisis« is regularly used. So the first question to be asked is what are the ingredients of this perception? If we look for empirical evidence of crises we...