ZfP Zeitschrift für Politik

Parties without federal political presence have long played a minor role in party and election research, notwithstanding the influence they can exert on a state level due to government participation and opposition leadership. The several typologies...

The Catalan conflict attracted broad international attention with the unilateral referendum and the declaration of independence of 2017. After offering some key historical and comparative constitutional background, the present article outlines ten...

The contribution offers an analytic frame for assessing territorial and minority conflicts in Europe today. Its principal argument is that an effective management of these conflicts requires a thorough revision of prevailing notions of sovereignty,...

Devolution has changed, but not ended the debates about the status and future of Scotland in the UK and in Europe. This contribution reconstructs the central institutional and theoretical lines of conflict that shape the multidimensional debates on...

Transhumanism pursues the goal to continue the biological evolution technically controlled beyond the human being and to use all possibilities of the scientific progress to increase the probability of the post-human. These possibilities are imagined...

Modern eugenics, as it developed in the second half of the 19th century, represents a synthesis of revolutionary-utopian, social-reformist and individual approaches, which emerged to help overcome what was seen as the crisis of modernity. The idea...

We are currently observing a worrying increase in ideology-led authoritarian states that are characterized by conspicuous nationalism. First of all, the concept of ideology is introduced. Then nationalism is viewed as an »ideology of integration«...