ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

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...

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...

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...

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....

After the early independence from Spain, republics emerged in Latin America. Due to the contradiction between the constitution and constitutional reality, democratic development suffered setbacks. Personalist dictatorships were followed in the 20th...

The most widespread concepts of authoritarianism today originate from the examination of the totalitarian movements and regimes of the 20th century. Karl Loewenstein first distinguished ‚authoritarian regimes‘ conceptually from totalitarianism....

Given the substantial changes in direct mandates, the results of the 2025 German federal election are analysed at the constituency level. This article examines, among other aspects, which constituencies were considered ›safe‹ ahead of the...