englischFaced with the deepest economic crisis in its history, the European Union established a seminal COVID-19 recovery package relying on common debt. This book analyses the European Council’s key role as a crisis manager and transformative force of the EU system. Combining thick descriptions of [...]

englischThe OSCE has always been a club of non-like-minded states. But since the heydays of the organization in the 1990s, finding consensus has become ever more difficult. The 2021 edition of OSCE Insights reveals differences in the interests of participating States but it also demonstrates that [...]

englischSince citizens' petitions were first introduced in Baden-Württemberg in 1956, there have been six cases of citizens' petitions and referendums in Ludwigsburg. Their subjects were as diverse as the discussions in the municipal council, ranging from the construction of the town hall and the [...]

englischThe cognitive dimension of political order is fundamental, as the global pandemic has once again illustrated. Not only is there no good government without knowledge, but knowledge is also a resource of ever new forms of government and a motor of societal change. Referring to authority [...]

englischThis book analyses National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights as a significant step in the development of corporate human rights responsibilities. Guided by discursive institutionalism and framed by an interpretation of the policy field as a competition of distinct ideas, this study [...]

englisch'People' is a key concept in democratic constitutions, which on closer examination appears to be peculiarly diffuse. In political discourse, it is ideologically loaded and used primarily with polemical intent—or embarrassingly avoided. This is the reflex of an unclear relationship between an [...]