ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

The early 21st federal election ended with heavy losses for all three governing parties. The FDP, with its worst result, failed to meet the five percent threshold for the second time since 2013, as did the Federal Social Democratic Party (BSW) by a...

This essay examines Russia’s post-Soviet transformation through the lens of political systems theory, political culture, and identity politics. Rather than a democratic transition, the collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in a series of hybrid and...

This article deals with the aleatory theory of democracy as a normative reform project in the context of regressive modernity. By means of a reconstruction of institutional and constitutional theory, it will be shown that the project of improving...

The article discusses seven potential functional advantages of sortition as a decision-making tool. The list includes the following arguments: The draw is absolutely accurate, it is cost-effective, it is a neutral and procedurally autonomous...

The abolition of the Lifetime Achievement Prize named after Theodor Eschenburg in 2013 because of his role in the Third Reich indirectly brought the first generation of German political science into focus. This subject only gained a foothold at the...

On the one hand, the legal framework forbids teachers from acting on behalf of just one political party and warns them to make sure that their opinion is marked as just one of many possible opinions. On the other hand, they have to advocate for...