Demokratien im inszenierten Standortwettbewerb

What happens in highly developed industrialized countries to broad strata of population – the bottom 90 percent – if the states see themselves as participants in a global competition? What does this mean concerning the political influence of citizens? Is it possible to give answers to climate change, digitalisation, the drifting apart of society without weakening our position within global competition? What is it about the image of “location competition”? Based on economic insights a political tendentious term is disenchanted. As a result of the analysis is to be realized: Potent states are capable of a much greater scope of design than is generally assumed. But Germany and the European Union act way below their best.