ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

Similar to their European counterparts, Japan’s center-left parties face a crisis of decline rooted in three distinct challenges. First, the number of left-leaning members of parliament is insufficient to secure governing majorities. Incorporating...

Although populist government leaders have repeatedly spoken out loudly on the international stage in support of oppressed and persecuted religious communities, free­dom of religion or belief (FoRB) remains an overlooked topic in research on...

The second Trump administration points to tightening ties between populist governments and movements, from Javier Milei to Viktor Orbán and Giorgia Meloni to Nigel Farage. Beyond this, populist leaders in the Global South, however, have so far not...

As a policy field that has long remained largely outside the focus of the broader public debate, development policy has historically attracted little attention from European right-wing populist parties. This article examines the development of...

The Stadt-Umland-Bahn is intended to provide the Nuremberg metropolitan region with transport links and at the same time expand local public transport services. Nevertheless, this project is representative of other infrastructure projects in...

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...