ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

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...