ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

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...

An analysis of ancient sources shows that sortition was used in various areas of private and public life in the Greek cultural sphere from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, serving a wide range of functions. This article provides an overview of...

With the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine in 2022, the national postal operator of Ukraine changed both the issuing policy and the design of its national postage stamps. Under the premise that stamps ought to be understood as geopolitical...

Construction and infrastructure projects repeatedly meet with protest from parts of the public. The reasons for this are manifold. What is clear, however, is how most citizens would like decisions to be made in cases of conflict: by elected...

The academic and political discourse on public investments and investment backlogs in Germany predominantly centers on the federal government and municipalities, often neglecting the role of the federal states. Against this backdrop, this article...

In the media and political science debate, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is generally positioned in a two-dimensional political space as leftist in socio-economic terms, advocating redistributive social and state-interventionist economic...

Public investments in material infrastructure often face resistance. Then environmental protection associations take the case to court through all levels of the courts. An analysis of all 175 lawsuits and decisions on the environmental impact of...

Anti-Ukrainian attitudes in the Russian leadership were a key factor in the 2014 outbreak and 2022 escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, was Russia’s most powerful...

The European integration process is often narrowed down to the European Union (EU). What is forgotten is the both older and in terms of the participating states also larger format of European cooperation in the form of the Strasbourg-based Council...

This article examines the Council of Europe's practices in dealing with non-democratic or hybrid member states that deviate from its fundamental principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. It assumes that the changing global order, in...

The new trend towards science communication can be described as the result of the economization of the public sphere since the Enlightenment. The ideas of the Enlightenment were based on circulation, on the publicity of ideas, on a certain idea of...

For a long time, the political meso-level of the regions in European integration was analysed primarily in the context of the EU. However, the Council of Europe was the first to grant institutional participation to sub-state actors, first the...

The Irish party system was regarded as unique. Characteristica of Irish exceptionalism were a party landscape lacking a left-right axis, without social bases, with pragmatic (non-ideological) coalitions and an absolutely unthinkable government...

The article depicts the various lobbying regulations at the federal level in Germany, e.g. the regulations on MPs‘ side jobs, party donations, cooling-off periods for former policymakers, the legislative and executive footprint, and the amended...

In this article we develop the idea of productive lobbying in the Social Market Economy. Lobbying is always productive when it promotes social cohesion and contributes to the pacification of opposing interests. We argue that this perspective expands...

The phenomenon of highly fragmented party systems is becoming increasingly prevalent in Europe, as evidenced by the observed increase in the effective number of parties. The fragmentation of the party system is also increasing in Germany. Against...

In recent decades, the corporatist German interest mediation has developed towards pluralistic lobbying, which is reflected in the increasing relevance of new actors, such as companies and lobbying service providers, as well as informal practices of...

History laws are not a new phenomenon, but have been known for centuries. To understand the current French debates on the laws associated with the term "loi mémorielle", it is necessary to consider the French legal and political system, but also a...

Taking PEGIDA as an example for right wing populist protest in Germany the analyses focus on the effect of the perceived climate of opinion in the population, among friends/acquaintances and colleagues/neighbors on political communication....