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?
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