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The stability of democracy depends on political conflicts being resolved peacefully, regulated and solution-oriented. In Germany too, it is increasingly threatened today by illiberal and authoritarian tendencies. The demand-side causes for this lie...
Picking up on relevant findings of the German party research, this article analyses all Austrian state elections since 1945 with regard to the electoral successes of parties that were or are not represented in the federal parliament...
Persons in penal institutions have a »right to a self-determined death«. Yet if access to assisted suicide is not currently practiced in penal institutions – as shown in published court decisions – this is an interference with the fundamental...
The history of Germany’s coming to terms with the National Socialist past after 1945 unfolded in different phases and at different levels. Initially, the focus was driven by the victorious powers' interest in the origins of the "Third Reich" and...
This paper deals with political judgements in the context of political education. It chooses its starting point in the broadly accepted difference of »Sachurteil« and »Werturteil«. The »Sachurteil« with its descriptive statements (about what...