10 May 2019
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, the European
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde’s work has received extensive scholarly attention beyond Germany in recent years, with incisive discussions of his legal and constitutional theory, his theorization of the relation between politics, law and religion, and his intellectual mentors. But amid Brexit and the run-up to the European elections in May 2019, it is worthwhile returning to some of the finest moments of Böckenförde the public intellectual. Continue reading >>
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08 May 2019
Modernisation in Continuity. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde´s most famous ideas and the Depolarization Paradox in Representative Democracy*
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? Continue reading >>
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