Verfassungsrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für demokratische Regierungsführung, Gewaltenteilung, institutionelles Design und demokratische Prozesse. Umfasst die verfassungsrechtlichen Strukturen für Legislative, Exekutive und Judikative, Wahlsysteme, Föderalismus und verfassungsrechtliche Mechanismen demokratischer Rechenschaftspflicht.
Während die Influencer-Kooperationen von Habeck, Lindner, Merz, Scholz und Wagenknecht kaum diskutiert wurden, erregte Elon Musks Unterstützung der AfD sogar international Aufsehen. Sein Gespräch mit Alice Weidel und sein Stream des AfD-Parteitags generierten zusammen bisher rund 100 Millionen Aufrufe. Die Unterstützung politischer Parteien in sozialen Medien stellt die neuen Regeln zu Werbemaßnahmen durch Dritte auf die Probe.
How can we make sense of the return of Donald Trump, who again convinced enough US voters of his populist bonafides? Populist authoritarianism has made inroads around the world. Only Trump’s version, however, probably brings together so much wealth and power, with super-rich business executives now at the helm. Here I tap a brilliant but neglected book, The Folklore of Capitalism (1937), by the legal scholar and New Deal trustbuster, Thurman Arnold (1891-1961), to understand this remarkable development. Folklore of Capitalism helps explain Trump’s wide appeal, despite the electorate’s disagreements with many of his policy preferences.
Two hundred years after gaining independence, Peru finds itself in a state of political instability. Over the past six years, the country has had six different presidents — largely due to a persistent power struggle between the Legislative and Executive branches. The ongoing turmoil indicates that Peru finds itself in a constitutional crisis– a crisis that encompasses both the constitutional text, tainted by its authoritarian history, and the political constitution, understood as the actual form of government.
On January 7, 2025, and in the days following, the founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, made a series of statements that framed Meta's previous and future content policy with an evidently strategic intention. The change of content moderation policy, as described in three comprehensive points in his personal announcement on his own platforms, may even sound reasonable, as discussed below. However, the reasoning and the framing of these changes appear to show that Meta is up to something entirely different from just further optimizing its curation of content on its platforms.
When thinking about this current moment in time when major currents of political and economic power seem to flow into each other in exceptional and perhaps unparalleled ways, it might be useful to tease out in some more detail how exactly plutocracy 2025 differs from the entanglements of economic and business power that have come before. Here is one difference that seems particularly striking. Plutocracy in 2025, unlike its typical predecessors, is not really engineered in discrete fashion behind the scenes by deep-rooted dynasties of political and economic life. Instead, it is a full-frontal brash attack right on the public stage.
At the dawn of 2025, liberal democracy is faced with a considerable challenge: Big Tech bosses appear to leverage their market power for far-reaching political influence, without any democratic legitimisation to do so. As someone working on issues of market power in the digital economy, one cannot help but wonder: shouldn’t competition law be able to contain (some of) this unseeming wielding of market power?
Fünf Fragen an Gerhard Reissner
Five Questions to Gerhard Reissner
Ein aktueller Referentenentwurf zielt darauf ab, Angriffe auf dem Gemeinwohl dienende Tätigkeiten schärfer zu bestrafen. Doch die geplanten Änderungen, wie der neue Strafzumessungsgrund in § 46 StGB oder das Regelbeispiel „hinterlistiger Überfall“ in § 113 StGB, sind überflüssig, unsystematisch und haben vor allem symbolpolitische Bedeutung.
Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would resign as Prime Minister once a new Liberal leader was selected. He also revealed that he had advised the Governor General to prorogue Parliament and that she had granted the request, with Parliament set to return on March 24. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement, a judicial review application was filed in Federal Court challenging the prorogation. In this blog post, I analyse what we know about the legal challenge so far.
13. September 2025
Giovanni Capoccia
12. September 2025
Anne Peters
12. September 2025
Anne Peters