ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

The stability of democracy depends on political conflicts being resolved peacefully, regulated and solution-oriented. In Germany too, it is increasingly threatened today by illiberal and authoritarian tendencies. The demand-side causes for this lie...

Picking up on relevant findings of the German party research, this article analyses all Austrian state elections since 1945 with regard to the electoral successes of parties that were or are not represented in the federal parliament...

Persons in penal institutions have a »right to a self-determined death«. Yet if access to assisted suicide is not currently practiced in penal institutions – as shown in published court decisions – this is an interference with the fundamental...

This paper deals with political judgements in the context of political education. It chooses its starting point in the broadly accepted difference of »Sachurteil« and »Werturteil«. The »Sachurteil« with its descriptive statements (about what...

In a key text in 1969, Arnold Gehlen criticized a »hypermorality« that was becoming noticeable in the Federal Republic. This essay considers Gehlen's considerations against the background of developments in historical scholarship over the past 50...

During the Corona crisis, science and morality formed a rare alliance to manage uncertainty. Clear, objective facts were expected from science, while moral communication aimed to promote social cohesion. However, both systems of meaning reach their...

Jürgen Habermas has pointed out the eruptions of public and private spheres, which as »semi-publics« endanger the character of democratic will-forming processes. Following Habermas' considerations, the constitutive character of the public sphere...

Sustainability is a widespread concept which is used in numerous disciplines. From a legal perspective, however, it remains a vague concept. This contribution develops a procedural approach to sustainability. It relies on the international climate...