ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

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...

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...