http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190517-144014-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/modernisation-in-continuity-ernst-wolfgang-boeckenfoerdes-most-famous-ideas-and-the-polarization-paradox-in-representative-democracy/ Modernisation in Continuity. Ernst-Wolfgang ­ Böckenförde´s most famous ideas and the Depolarization Paradox in Representative Democracy* Lübbe-Wolff, Gertrude eng 2019-05-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Democracy Theory Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde Legitimation Representative Democracy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The current surge of populist movements, the anti-democratic reflections of a wide-spread feeling that something is going fundamentally wrong (even) in democratic societies – are they symptoms of fundamental deficits in representative democracy? Can Böckenförde`s theory of democracy help us understand what is going on?