Zur Bekämpfung der Pandemie werden Grundrechte eingeschränkt. Wie geeignet und verhältnismäßig ist das?

Fundamental rights are being restricted to combat the pandemic. Can we question these measures' appropriateness?

Es scheint, dass weniger die Frage Demokratie versus Autokratie, sondern der Grad der Staatlichkeit und die Kohäsion der Gesellschaft darüber entscheiden, wie gut ein Land aus der COVID-19 Krise herauskommt.

Resilience has risen to become a key concept in science and society. Resilience is used in many scientific disciplines as diverse as materials science, architecture, engineering , psychology, sociology, sustainability science, and now, for some years, political science too. More generally,...

Die erste Pandemie, die die Bundesrepublik Deutschland erlebte, stellte die Demokratie vor eine Bewährungsprobe. Es standen keine Erfahrungen, Routinen und nicht einmal klare Normen bereit, die die politischen Eliten und Institutionen leiten konnten. Wie gut kam die Demokratie durch die Krise?...

In the literature on democratization the mainstream of theoretical and empirical consolidology uses the dichotomy autocracy versus democracy. Democracy is generally conceived of as 'electoral democracy'. This simple dichotomy does not allow a distinction between consolidated liberal democracies...

Capitalism and democracy follow different logics: unequally distributed property rights on the one hand, equal civic and political rights on the other; profit-oriented trade within capitalism in contrast to the search for the common good within democracy; debate, compromise and majority...

Illiberalism and authoritarianism have become major threats to democracy across the world. In response to this development, research on the causes and processes of democratic declines has blossomed. Much less scholarly attention has been devoted to the issue of democratic resilience. Why are...