TY  - GEN
A1  - Conrad, Burkhard
T1  - Zwischen Sein und Schein : die Transformationsforschung ringt mit sich und ihrem Gegenstand
T1  - Between existence and illusion : the transformation research agonises with itself and its subject matter
KW  - Transformationsforschung
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Transformationstheorie
KW  - Transformation research
KW  - democracy
KW  - society
KW  - transformation theory
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47488
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Giebler, Heiko
A1  - Ruth, Saskia P.
A1  - Tanneberg, Dag
T1  - Why choice matters
BT  - revisiting and comparing measures of democracy
T2  - Politics and Governance
N2  - Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research.
KW  - application
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic quality
KW  - measurement
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1428
SN  - 2183-2463
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Cogitatio Press
CY  - Lisbon
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Giebler, Heiko
A1  - Ruth, Saskia P.
A1  - Tanneberg, Dag
T1  - Why choice matters
BT  - revisiting and comparing measures of democracy
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 104 
KW  - application
KW  - conceptualization
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic quality
KW  - measurement
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427891
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 104
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
T1  - Von Dynastien und Demokratien : Staatlichkeit im Postsozialismus
T1  - About dynasties and democracies : statehood in post socialism
N2  - Patrimonialer Sozialismus Clan-Herrschaft in Turkmenistan Polizei in Georgien Zentralasiens Präsidenten Organisiertes Verbrechen in Bulgarien Albanien als Familienstaat Hybride Staaten im Südkaukasus Entwicklungspolitik von NGOs Afrika ad portas? Die T-Frage im Bundestag Vom Sein und Schein der Transformation
KW  - Staat
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Regierungssystem
KW  - Entwicklungspolitik
KW  - State
KW  - democracy
KW  - government system
KW  - development policy
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47345
SN  - 3-937786-21-X
SN  - 978-3-937786-21-6
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mackert, Jürgen
T1  - Social life as collective struggle
BT  - closure theory and the problem of solidarity
JF  - sozialpolitik.ch
N2  - In recent years, all over the globe we have seen intensifying economic exploitation, political disenfranchisement, social marginalization and cultural repression in all kinds of political regimes, from liberal democratic to authoritarian and dictatorial. Although the strategies vary with regard to regime and context, in all of them we observe that while a growing number of social groups are speaking out and rising against them, a presumably much higher number of groups do not. In this article, I argue that all these processes can be conceived as aspects of ongoing closure struggles in social life. However, in order to understand why some social groups are able to fight against closure strategies while others are not, closure theory in its current state of elaboration is not of any help. While it operates with the term solidarization, it does not offer any explanation of how such acting in solidarity may become possible in closure struggles. The article is a mainly theoretical contribution of how to solve this problem.
KW  - social closure
KW  - struggle
KW  - solidarization
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.18753/2297-8224-174
SN  - 2297-8224
IS  - 1
PB  - Universität
CY  - Freiburg
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Tallberg, Jonas
A1  - Bäckstrand, Karin
A1  - Aart Scholte, Jan
A1  - Sommerer, Thomas
T1  - SNS Democracy Council 2023
BT  - global governance: fit for purpose?
N2  - Transboundary problems such as climate change, military conflicts, trade barriers, and refugee flows require increased collaboration across borders. This is to a large extent possible using existing international organizations. In such a case, however, they need to be considerably strengthened – while current trends take us in the opposite direction, according to the researchers in the SNS Democracy Council 2023.
KW  - democracy
KW  - globalization
KW  - international trade
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://snsse.cdn.triggerfish.cloud/uploads/2023/04/sns-democracy-council-2023-global-governance--fit-for-purpose.pdf
SN  - 978-91-89754-06-5
PB  - SNS Förlag
CY  - Stockholm
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yilmaz, Zafer
T1  - Revising the culture of political protest after the gezi uprising in Turkey
BT  - radical imagination, affirmative resistance, and the new politics of desire and dignity
JF  - Mediterranean Quarterly
N2  - The Gezi uprising can be considered a crucial turning in Turkish politics. As a response to countrywide democratic protests, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government revived the security state, escalated authoritarian tendencies, and started to organize a nationalist, Islamist, and conservative backlash. This essay argues that the Gezi Park protests revealed both the fragility of the AKP's hegemony and the limits of the dominant political group habitus, which were promoted by the party to consolidate political polarization in favor of the party's hegemony. Moreover, it is argued that the Gezi uprising transformed the culture of political protests in the country and paved the way for the emergence of affirmative resistance, radical imagination, and a new politics of desire and dignity against authoritarian and neoliberal policies.
KW  - Erdogan
KW  - Turkish politics
KW  - democracy
KW  - authoritarianism
KW  - AKP
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1215/10474552-7003168
SN  - 1047-4552
SN  - 1527-1935
VL  - 29
IS  - 3
SP  - 55
EP  - 77
PB  - Duke Univ. Press
CY  - Durham
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Kleger, Heinz
T1  - Regieren ohne Demokratie? : Europäischer Verfassungsprozess und die Demokratie der Bürger
T1  - Ruling without democracy? : The process of the european constitution and the democracy of the people
N2  - Das momentane Urteil fällt ambivalent aus: Das Projekt einer EU-Verfassung ist erfolgreich gescheitert. Das heißt: Das Ziel der deutschen Ratspräsidentschaft, eine substantielle Einigung über die Inhalte einer neuen Vertragsreform unter Beibehaltung der Grundzüge des Konventsentwurfs herbeizuführen, ist geglückt. Der europäische Verfassungsprozess wurde hingegen auf einen Reformprozess der bestehenden Verträge reduziert. Wir kritisieren den mangelnden Einbezug der Unionsbürgerschaft in das Ratifizierungsverfahren sowie die Uneinheitlichkeit dieser Verfahren (einmal Referendum, einmal nicht).
T3  - WeltTrends Papiere - 11 
KW  - Europäische Union
KW  - europäische Verfassung
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - European Union
KW  - European Constitution
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2009
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35990
SN  - 978-3-86956-017-5
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Heberer, Thomas
T1  - Party State im "Reich der Mitte" : zum politischen System in China
T1  - The Party State in the "Middle Kingdom"
N2  - China ist auf dem Weg zu einer offeneren Gesellschaft mit zunehmender Partizipation, größerer rechtlicher Sicherheit und individueller Autonomie. Der Staat zog sich aus vielen Bereichen zurück, ökonomische Ziele bestimmen seine Prioritäten. Die Entwicklungserfolge brachten jedoch eine Legitimationskrise des Staates mit sich. Vier Dilemmata, die China heute konfrontieren, werden aufgezeigt und Hypothesen zur Charakterisierung des chinesischen party state diskutiert.
N2  - China is on the way to a more open society with increasing participation, legal security and individual autonomy. The state has withdrawn from many fields, economic goals determine its priorities. However, successful development implicated legitimation crisis of the state. Four dilemmas, which confront China today, are pointed out and hypotheses for the characterisation of the Chinese "party state" are discussed.
KW  - China
KW  - Politisches System
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - China
KW  - political system
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-12484
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
ED  - Petersen, Hans-Georg
ED  - Gelaschwili, Simon
T1  - Nachhaltige Finanz- und Sozialpolitik in Georgien : Arbeitspapiere des Deutsch-Georgischen Arbeitskreises für Finanz- und Sozialpolitik
T1  - Sustainable financial and social policy in Georgia : working papers of the German-Georgian working group for financial and social policy
N2  - Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbandes widmen sich vorrangig den finanz- und sozialrechtlichen Problemen von Georgien im Transformationsprozess, bieten wichtige Informationen zur aktuellen Situation von Haushalten und zum Steueraufkommen, zu Fragen der Armut und der Einkommensverteilung, zur rechtlichen Fundierung der Finanz- und Sozialpolitik sowie zur Ausgestaltung der gebietskörperschaftlichen Struktur. Die Autoren vermitteln weitgehende Vorschläge zur Reform des Steuer- und Transfersystems sowie zum Aufbau eines friedensstiftenden Föderalstaats, welcher die Kenntnisse über die Wertgrundlagen einer offenen Gesellschaft vertieft, damit den zivilgesellschaftlichen Ansatz unterstützt, eine Stärkung des demokratischen Marktsystems fördert und zugleich das friedliche Zusammenleben in einer unruhigen Region erleichtert.
KW  - Georgien
KW  - Reform
KW  - Sozialpolitik
KW  - Steuersystem
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Friede
KW  - Marktwirtschaft
KW  - Föderalstaat
KW  - Einkommensverteilung
KW  - Armut
KW  - Georgian Republic
KW  - reform
KW  - fiscal system
KW  - tax structure
KW  - democracy
KW  - market economy
KW  - peace
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16047
SN  - 978-3-940793-11-9
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Heinz, Wolfgang S.
T1  - Militär und Transition zur Demokratie in Lateinamerika : ein Rück- und Ausblick
T1  - Military and transition to democracy in Latin America
N2  - Since the beginning of the 1970s a lot of countries in Latin America has been starting the transition to democracy. The article analyses the role played by the military in this process, especially the effects of civildemocratic governments – sometimes failing in – gaining power over the military. It is described how and why the army occasionally kept their independence from the civil power and how this influenced the consolidation of democracy.
KW  - Lateinamerika
KW  - Militär
KW  - Übergang
KW  - zivil-militärische Beziehungen
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Latin America
KW  - military
KW  - transition
KW  - civil-military relations
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48299
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baehrens, Konstantin
T1  - Introduction to Georg Lukacs: Why Democracies are superior to Autocracies? and The real Germany
JF  - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung
N2  - Two short typescripts by G. Lukacs from the archive, dating from 1941/42, shed light on his appraisal of the cultural 'inner reserves' of Germany and the 'moral reserves' of the democracies involved in the Second World War, as well as on Lukacs's political philosophy at that time. The conception of an intrinsic interrelation of a humanist philosophical anthropology and rationalist epistemology elucidates his egalitarian and democratic account. Both texts are located within the intellectual development of the author in an introduction by the editor, which sketches the historical background and indicates relevant contemporaneous theoretical and political debates, such as the controversies over realism and humanism and also a dispute with K. Jaspers on German collective guilt.
KW  - autocracy
KW  - collective guilt
KW  - democracy
KW  - German classic
KW  - German misery
KW  - humanism
KW  - Jaspers
KW  - Lukacs
KW  - Marxism
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - rationalism
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2015-0019
SN  - 0012-1045
SN  - 2192-1482
VL  - 63
IS  - 2
SP  - 358
EP  - 366
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jagtiani, Sharinee L.
A1  - Wellek, Sophia
T1  - In the Shadow of Ukraine
BT  - India's choices and challenges
JF  - Survival
N2  - In 2022, India captured global attention over its response to the war in Ukraine. While calling for both parties' return to diplomacy, India abstained from several United Nations resolutions condemning Russian aggression. For a country that ostensibly subscribes to the values of democracy and territorial integrity, its response appeared frustrating and contradictory, but it is broadly consistent with its long-standing policy of non-alignment. Although India's relationship with China is increasingly contentious, New Delhi is not yet fully convinced that it is in India's interest to swing westwards. The country's relations with Russia and China are deep, complex and substantive. In addition to the military and economic benefits it derives from its connection with Russia, New Delhi and Moscow share an avowed preference for a more equal, multipolar world. India will eventually have to reflect on the extent to which it can sustain its balancing act.
KW  - China
KW  - Galwan Valley
KW  - democracy
KW  - India
KW  - Jawaharlal Nehru
KW  - non-alignment;
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
KW  - Quad
KW  - Indo-Pacific
KW  - Russia
KW  - Ukraine war
KW  - United Nations
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2022.2078045
SN  - 126962024X
SN  - 1468-2699
VL  - 64
IS  - 3
SP  - 29
EP  - 48
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Schmidt-Eenboom, Erich
T1  - Geheimdienste in Demokratien
N2  - Geheimdienste sind für den modernen Staat zur Gewährleistung seiner inneren und äußeren Sicherheit wesentlich und stehen ständig vor neuen Herausforderungen. Die Dienste der Bundesrepublik sind aus der Frontstaatlage im Kalten Krieg gewachsen, und ihr Wert als geheimes Regierungsinstrument ist durch eine Vielzahl systemischer Probleme erheblich eingeschränkt. Zudem gibt es weder eine klare Standortbestimmung der Dienste im politischen System, noch eine moralische Grenzziehung ihrer Aktivitäten.
N2  - A functioning intelligence system is of fundamental importance for the security of a modern state and constantly faces new challenges. The intelligence services of the Federal Republic of Germany have grown out of their "front-state" role during the Cold War, at the same time as their value as a secret instrument of the government is substantially reduced by a variety of system-inherent problems. Moreover, there is neither an explicitly defined position of the services within the political system nor a moral limitation of their activities.
KW  - Bundesnachrichtendienst
KW  - Medien
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - intelligence service
KW  - media
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9812
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.
T1  - Feigning Democracy
BT  - Performing Representation in the UN-REDD Funded Nigeria-REDD Programme
JF  - Conservation & society
N2  - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus the sustainable management of forest and enhancement of carbon stocks (REDD+) is a global climate change mitigation initiative. The United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD) is training governments in developing countries, including Nigeria, to implement REDD+. To protect local people, UN-REDD has developed social safeguards including a commitment to strengthen local democracy to prevent an elite capture of REDD+ benefits. This study examines local participation and representation in the UN-REDD international policy board and in the national-level design process for the Nigeria-REDD proposal, to see if practices are congruent with the UN-REDD commitment to local democracy. It is based on research in Nigeria in 2012 and 2013, and finds that local representation in the UN-REDD policy board and in Nigeria-REDD is not substantive. Participation is merely symbolic. For example, elected local government authorities, who ostensibly represent rural people, are neither present in the UN-REDD board nor were they invited to the participatory forums that vetted the Nigeria-REDD. They were excluded because they were politically weak. However, UN-REDD approved the Nigeria-REDD proposal without a strategy to include or strengthen elected local governments. The study concludes with recommendations to help the UN-REDD strengthen elected local government authority in Nigeria in support of democratic local representation.
KW  - REDD
KW  - climate change mitigation
KW  - UN-REDD
KW  - democracy
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - symbolic representation
KW  - local government
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_16_106
SN  - 0972-4923
SN  - 0975-3133
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SP  - 384
EP  - 399
PB  - Medknow publications & media Pvt LTD
CY  - Mumbai
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baehrens, Konstantin
T1  - Einleitung zu Georg Lukács
BT  - Warum sind Demokratien den Autokratien überlegen? und Das wirkliche Deutschland
JF  - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
N2  - Two short typescripts by G. Lukacs from the archive, dating from 1941/42, shed light on his appraisal of the cultural ‘inner reserves’ of Germany and the ‘moral reserves’ of the democracies involved in the Second World War, as well as on Lukacs’s political philosophy at that time. The conception of an intrinsic interrelation of a humanist philosophical anthropology and rationalist epistemology elucidates his egalitarian and democratic account. Both texts are located within the intellectual development of the author in an introduction by the editor, which sketches the historical background and indicates relevant contemporaneous theoretical and political debates, such as the controversies over realism and humanism and also a dispute with K. Jaspers on German collective guilt.
KW  - autocracy
KW  - collective guilt
KW  - democracy
KW  - German classic
KW  - German misery
KW  - humanism
KW  - Jaspers
KW  - Lukacs
KW  - Marxism
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - rationalism
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2015-0019
SN  - 2192-1482
SN  - 0012-1045
VL  - 63
IS  - 2
SP  - 358
EP  - 366
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Baehrens, Konstantin
T1  - Einleitung zu Georg Lukács
T1  - Introduction to Georg Lukacs
BT  - Warum sind Demokratien den Autokratien überlegen? und Das wirkliche Deutschland
BT  - Why Democracies are superior to Autocracies? and The real Germany
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - Two short typescripts by G. Lukacs from the archive, dating from 1941/42, shed light on his appraisal of the cultural ‘inner reserves’ of Germany and the ‘moral reserves’ of the democracies involved in the Second World War, as well as on Lukacs’s political philosophy at that time. The conception of an intrinsic interrelation of a humanist philosophical anthropology and rationalist epistemology elucidates his egalitarian and democratic account. Both texts are located within the intellectual development of the author in an introduction by the editor, which sketches the historical background and indicates relevant contemporaneous theoretical and political debates, such as the controversies over realism and humanism and also a dispute with K. Jaspers on German collective guilt.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 131 
KW  - autocracy
KW  - collective guilt
KW  - democracy
KW  - German classic
KW  - German misery
KW  - humanism
KW  - Jaspers
KW  - Lukacs
KW  - Marxism
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - rationalism
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398579
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 131
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Krämer, Raimund
T1  - Editorial
KW  - Politik
KW  - Internet
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Europa
KW  - Politics
KW  - internet
KW  - democracy
KW  - Europe
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47973
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tanneberg, Dag
T1  - Does repression of campaigns trigger coups d’état?
JF  - The politics of repression under authoritarian rule : how steadfast is the Iron Throne?
N2  - Does complementarity between restrictions and violence stabilize authoritarian power-sharing in the face of popular rebellion? Scholars widely concur that the central political conflict in authoritarian regimes plays out between people on the inside of the regime. This chapter adds to the debate and studies coup attempts in light of two interconnected hypotheses. First, violence against campaigns destabilizes power-sharing because it exposes a weak leadership. Second, this adverse effect of violence declines as the routine level of restrictions increases, because restrictions act as a sorting mechanism for uncompromising political opposition. Both hypotheses are tested using Bayesian multilevel statistical analysis on a data set of 253 coup attempts in 198 authoritarian regimes between 1949 and 2007. This study design allows separation of repression’s time-dependent effects from its context effects, and it demonstrates the value of Bayesian methods for studying rare political phenomena such as coups d’état. The chapter’s conclusion, however, is straightforward: Once citizens form campaigns, repression can only deteriorate the situation because it opens a frontline right at the center of authoritarian rule.
KW  - contentious politics
KW  - human rights
KW  - state repression
KW  - political stability
KW  - policy substitutes
KW  - dictatorship
KW  - political repression
KW  - political campaigns
KW  - authoritarian rule
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-030-35477-0
SN  - 978-3-030-35476-3
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35477-0_5
SN  - 2198-7289
SP  - 121
EP  - 162
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Does public reason require super-majoritarian democracy? Liberty, equality, and history in the justification of political institutions
JF  - Politics, philosophy & economics
N2  - The project of public-reason liberalism faces a basic problem: publicly justified principles are typically too abstract and vague to be directly applied to practical political disputes, whereas applicable specifications of these principles are not uniquely publicly justified. One solution could be a legislative procedure that selects one member from the eligible set of inconclusively justified proposals. Yet if liberal principles are too vague to select sufficiently specific legislative proposals, can they, nevertheless, select specific legislative procedures? Based on the work of Gerald Gaus, this article argues that the only candidate for a conclusively justified decision procedure is a majoritarian or otherwise 'neutral' democracy. If the justification of democracy requires an equality baseline in the design of political regimes and if justifications for departure from this baseline are subject to reasonable disagreement, a majoritarian design is justified by default. Gaus's own preference for super-majoritarian procedures is based on disputable specifications of justified liberal principles. These procedures can only be defended as a sectarian preference if the equality baseline is rejected, but then it is not clear how the set of justifiable political regimes can be restricted to full democracies.
KW  - public-reason liberalism
KW  - democracy
KW  - coercion
KW  - political equality
KW  - majority rule
KW  - Gerald Gaus
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X12447786
SN  - 1470-594X
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SP  - 179
EP  - 196
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Does public reason require super-majoritarian democracy?
BT  - Liberty, equality, and history in the justification of political institutions
T2  - Politics, philosophy & economics
N2  - The project of public-reason liberalism faces a basic problem: publicly justified principles are typically too abstract and vague to be directly applied to practical political disputes, whereas applicable specifications of these principles are not uniquely publicly justified. One solution could be a legislative procedure that selects one member from the eligible set of inconclusively justified proposals. Yet if liberal principles are too vague to select sufficiently specific legislative proposals, can they, nevertheless, select specific legislative procedures? Based on the work of Gerald Gaus, this article argues that the only candidate for a conclusively justified decision procedure is a majoritarian or otherwise ‘neutral’ democracy. If the justification of democracy requires an equality baseline in the design of political regimes and if justifications for departure from this baseline are subject to reasonable disagreement, a majoritarian design is justified by default. Gaus’s own preference for super-majoritarian procedures is based on disputable specifications of justified liberal principles. These procedures can only be defended as a sectarian preference if the equality baseline is rejected, but then it is not clear how the set of justifiable political regimes can be restricted to full democracies.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 86 
KW  - public-reason liberalism
KW  - democracy
KW  - coercion
KW  - political equality
KW  - majority rule
KW  - Gerald Gaus
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-477860
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
A1  - Eppner, Sebastian
A1  - Stecker, Christian
A1  - Heeß, Katja
A1  - Schukraft, Stefan
T1  - Do minority cabinets govern more flexibly and inclusively?
BT  - evidence from Germany
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - A widespread view in political science is that minority cabinets govern more flexibly and inclusively, more in line with a median-oriented and 'consensual' vision of democracy. Yet there is only little empirical evidence for it. We study legislative coalition-building in the German state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, which was ruled by a minority government between 2010 and 2012. We compare the inclusiveness of legislative coalitions under minority and majority cabinets, based on 1028 laws passed in the 1985–2017 period, and analyze in detail the flexibility of legislative coalition formation under the minority government. Both quantitative analyses are complemented with brief case studies of specific legislation. We find, first, that the minority cabinet did not rule more inclusively. Second, the minority cabinet’s legislative flexibility was fairly limited; to the extent that it existed, it follows a pattern that cannot be explained on the basis of the standard spatial model with policy-seeking parties.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 114 
KW  - Australian bicameralism
KW  - pledge fulfillment
KW  - majority formation
KW  - veto players
KW  - patterns
KW  - coalitions
KW  - consensus
KW  - democracy
KW  - parties
KW  - policy
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434175
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 114
SP  - 541
EP  - 561
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Antić, Andreas
T1  - Digitale Öffentlichkeiten und intelligente Kooperation
T1  - Digital publics and intelligent cooperation
BT  - Zur Aktualität des demokratischen Experimentalismus von John Dewey
BT  - on the topicality of John Dewey’s democratic experimentalism
N2  - Um die gegenwärtige Transformation der Öffentlichkeit im digitalen Zeitalter erfassen zu können, ist in der Öffentlichkeitstheorie eine erweiterte Perspektive notwendig, die nicht nur den massenmedialen Diskurs, sondern auch die Veränderung sozialer Praktiken und institutioneller Strukturen in den Blick nimmt. Das Ziel dieses Buches besteht darin, die Grundlagen einer solchen Perspektive auf die Theorie digitaler Öffentlichkeiten zu entwickeln. Im vorgeschlagenen Ansatz wird Öffentlichkeit im Anschluss an John Dewey als Prozess verstanden. In seiner prozessualen und funktionalen Bestimmung von Öffentlichkeit liegt eine besondere Originalität, die seinen Ansatz von anderen Öffentlichkeitskonzeptionen unterscheidet. Das Buch liefert sowohl eine systematische Rekonstruktion und Interpretation der Philosophie John Deweys als auch einen Vorschlag zur gesellschaftstheoretischen Deutung des digitalen Wandels.
N2  - In order to understand the contemporary transformation of the public sphere in the digital age, it is required to incorporate a broader theoretical perspective that not only takes mass media into account, but also the transformation of social practices and institutional structures. The aim of this book is to develop the basis for such a perspective on the theory of the public sphere. The reading put forward here takes its cue from John Dewey, who viewed the public sphere as a process?.  His procedural and functional concept of the public sphere differs from many of the more established concepts. This book provides a comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of John Dewey's philosophy and offers an interpretation of the digital transformation in terms of social theory.
KW  - John Dewey
KW  - Öffentlichkeit
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - digitaler Wandel
KW  - Pragmatismus
KW  - John Dewey
KW  - public sphere
KW  - democracy
KW  - digital age
KW  - pragmatism
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-410964
SN  - 978-3-86956-431-9
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Kneip, Sascha
T1  - Die sozialphilosophischen Grundlagen des demokratischen Wohlfahrtsstaats
N2  - At the beginning of the 21st century the welfare state is under pressure from two sides. On the one hand, there is "globalisation", on the other hand seems to be some sort of normative crisis of the welfare state’s moral foundations. The welfare state is said to curtail individual freedom and autonomy. This article rejects this assumption by exploring the philosophical and moral foundations of the welfare state, thereby demonstrating that it is essentially necessary for individual freedom and autonomy. Furthermore, it is shown that individual freedom is also the core principle of liberal democracy and that the welfare state is therefore an indispensable prerequisite for democracy itself.
KW  - welfare state
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2003
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9570
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Kolanoski, Martina
T1  - Die Entsendung der Bundeswehr ins Ausland : zur Funktion des Parlamentsvorbehalts im Kontext bündnispolitischer Verpflichtungen
N2  - Über den Einsatz bewaffneter Bundeswehrsoldaten im Ausland entscheidet der Bundestag. Die demokratische Legitimität von Bundeswehreinsätzen beruht daher auf der parlamentarischen Mehrheitsentscheidung. Doch durch die Auslagerung von Entscheidungen auf multinationale Sicherheitssysteme, wie die NATO und die EU, ergeben sich Handlungsbeschränkungen für das deutsche Parlament. In dieser Publikation analysiert die Politikwissenschaftlerin Martina Kolanoski die tatsächliche Entscheidungsmacht des Bundestags am Beispiel von Bundeswehreinsätzen im Rahmen der Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik (ESVP). Sie zeigt, weshalb die parlamentarischen Einflüssmöglichkeiten nur sehr begrenzt sind und argumentiert damit gegen die These des Parlamentarischen Friedens. Die Weiterentwicklung der ESVP durch den Vertrag von Lissabon, die multinationale Streitkräfteintegration, das Konzept der European Battlegroups und der deutsche Entscheidungsprozess zur EU-Mission EUFOR RD Congo werden auf die Frage hin untersucht, ob die Einsatzentscheidung durch politische und/oder militärische Integration vorweg genommen wird.
T3  - WeltTrends Thesis - 9 
KW  - Bundeswehr
KW  - Auslandseinsätze
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Parlament
KW  - Bundeswehr
KW  - german defense force
KW  - out of area missions
KW  - democracy
KW  - parliament
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42110
SN  - 978-3-86956-062-5
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -