ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

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...