englischContradictory trends of depoliticisation and (re-)politicisation seem to characterise current democratic society. Protest movements and populism polarise opinions on both the streets and social media, while anonymous algorithms or scientific expertise threaten to technocratise political [...]

englischSince 2011, the Middle East has been in a process of open-ended political change. What are the reasons for this reconfiguration and the old authoritarian states’ resilience? This book aims at deconstructing the political and social transformation in the Middle East from an interdisciplinary, [...]

englischThe traditional patterns of political representation have been thrown into crisis because populism is posing a serious challenge to liberal democracies. In recent years, the rise of populism has triggered an intensive debate in the field of social sciences on its causes and legitimacy and on [...]

englischMigration has become a contested issue in post-migrant democracies. This special issue takes the contested nature of migration as a starting point to shed light on the interrelation between democracy and migration. The aim is to assess the challenges and democratic potentials of the [...]

Politik und Ökonomie sind im Zuge von Globalisierung und zunehmender Krisenanfälligkeit von tiefgreifenden Veränderungen geprägt, die die Frage nach der Rechtfertigung institutioneller Strukturen, einzelner Entscheidungen und bestimmter Akteure aufwerfen. Akteure unterschiedlichster Art bemühen sich [...]

englischThe public sphere is important for democracy and it is changing. Its current development is taking place at the point where three sequences of institutional change meet and interact: globalisation, commodification and the digitalisation of social dimensions. The contributions to this volume [...]

englischThere is hardly a social field today where it is not imperative to always be successful. What caused the triumph of this guiding principle? What are the social conditions and the consequences of the increasingly ubiquitous motto: Success at any price?

The 16 contributions explore the [...]

An der Schnittstelle von Internationalen Beziehungen und Soziologie hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren ein zentrales interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld herausgebildet. Die gemeinsam von Autorenpärchen aus den Bereichen Soziologie und IB verfassten Beiträge in diesem Sonderband zeigen auf, dass [...]

englischUntil now, the visual depiction of political rule has been characterised by portrayals of power and unity, and research has focused on these representations of political identity as opposed to representations of difference in politics, which are often especially productive. In democracies in [...]

englischOur political times appear unstable: Liberal democracy is struggling to retain its inner balance and is being destabilised by both internal and external forces. How can stability be achieved — and what is stability? When does stability become undemocratic? And what can we learn from [...]