In increasingly individualised Western societies, personality is becoming a key factor in understanding political behaviour. While some voting patterns are well researched, this article examines a les...

Against the backdrop of the general underrepresentation of East Germans in top positions, and their considerably lower satisfaction with the functioning of democracy, this article analyzes the extent ...

Twenty-five years ago, Fritz W. Scharpf presented his theory on the unequal conditions for negative and positive integration. According to this theory, negative integration faces lower procedural hurd...

The more than ten-year history of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is marked by continuous programmatic and personnel development. Starting out as an economically liberal, Eurosceptic party, th...