ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

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...

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...