englischDoes more participation generate more legitimacy? As convincing as this may sound, the empirical analyses on direct participation opportunities in the EU are not very convincing. Juliane Scholz shows that the reasons for this discrepancy lie in structural problems relating to the forms of [...]

englischEconomic migration is on the rise. It generates forms of temporary migration which differ from both traditional settler migration and the status and needs of refugees. How should liberal democratic societies respond to those new demands on immigration? In this book, Christine Chwaszcza [...]

englischThe current general decline of the political order highlights the fact that political integration is needed, and Western democracies are no exception in this respect any more. In contrast to liberal approaches, which assume political sense is a limited resource, republics include a principle [...]

englischMichel Dormal sheds new light on the fuzzy relationship between democracy and the nation. He does not start from notions of collective identity but from recent theories of political representation. Public representation of social conflict creates collective narratives in a way that most [...]