englischHow do parties adapt to an environment characterised by the rejection of intermediate bodies? They both offer members more opportunity for direct and online participation and strengthen their leadership. By proposing an innovative framework for the analysis of disintermediation in politics, [...]

englischIn a rural region of Uganda (Busoga), people are trying to manage their everyday lives and gain agency despite the negative effects of globalisation on their living conditions. In this book, from a postcolonial perspective, the author examines the role of solidarity-based economic activities [...]

englischFollowing the failed peace operations of the early 1990s, the United Nations (UN) initiated a change in strategy. Henceforth, the protection of civilians was also to be enabled by more robust intervention. This change, however, did not imply a rejection of external democracy promotion as an [...]

englischIt is the task of political psychology to examine political behaviour from a psychological or socio-psychological perspective. Its topics include the analysis of political elites, especially their personalities, motives and actions, political leadership, foreign policy decision-making [...]

englischAt some point, long before the AfD existed, the large political parties in Germany alienated themselves from the electorate. The CDU/CSU and SPD only had themselves to blame for this loss of support, the reasons for which the head of ‘forsa’, Prof. Manfred Güllner, analyses in his new book [...]