Leviathan

The contribution gives an overview of Harrison White’s theory of social structures and discusses it in the context of contemporary sociological theory. White focuses on social constellations on the meso-level. These are conceptualized as networks...

Since President Trump took office in 2025, US science has been under financial and political pressure: Billions in research funding cut, academic freedom, DEI programs and international mobility and collaborations curtailed. Universities are seen as...

The aim of this article is to analyze the difficulty of implementing government digitalization projects. While the agreement mechanisms known from other cross-cutting issues work for digitalization legislation and the joint initiatives to promote...

Emotions are increasingly central to public debates about science, where they become the subjects of reflexive deliberation. Drawing on case studies, we examine how emotions feature in these debates. Our analysis highlights the social and epistemic...

What happens when cars are deprived of the space they’ve long occupied as a given? How stable is car dominance in Germany, and can real-world labs disrupt it? This study draws on the MLP model to explore these questions. Using Berlin’s...

The article uncovers media-produced knowledge about the coronavirus vaccination in Germany. The analysis of articles from both opinion-leading media and selected blogs shows, among other things, an interdependent radicalisation on the fringes, but...

Theories of radical democracy are characterized by a comprehensive understanding of contingency through a critique of norms and norm-based rule. However, it is discussed whether the abolition of oppressive conditions and the idea of...