Kategorie: Globale Zivilgesellschaft

Kapitol

Amerika schaut in einen Spiegel

Abstract [en]: The rise of Donald Trump and the Capitol attack of 2021 can only be understood as the endpoint of a political development that began in 1968 and has dominated the media and culture over the past 30 years, according to Bruno Heidlberger’s thesis. They are, so Heidlberger, a symptom of an anti-liberal counterrevolution from the Right, which is...

Die WerteAkademie – ein Akteur der Globalen Zivilgesellschaft

Abstract [en]: Who is part of civil society? In conversation with Vera Hofmann we portray the association WerteAkademie Gut Gödelitz as an actor of global civil society. The conversation focuses on the association’s founding history, its aims, work and challenges for the future. Abstract [de]: Wer gehört eigentlich zur Zivilgesellschaft? In dem Gespräch mit Vera Hofmann von der WerteAkademie Gut Gödelitz wird dieser...

Gerechtigkeit

Gefühlte Gerechtigkeit

Abstract [en]: What is understood by ‘justice’ is no only subject to socio-historical conditions, but also includes in central position the question of subjective feelings about and evaluations of ‘justice’. With the help of the distinction between four kinds of ‘justice’ – equality of opportunity, along performance, along needs or generational ‘justice’ – this is discussed along the example of...

Verfassungsgerichte

Verfassungsgerichte als politische Akteure im juristischen Gewand

Abstract [en]: After the election of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as the successor of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg shortly before the American presidential elections, this paper raises the question of the extent to which courts can be politically „neutral“. The question of role, function and legitimacy of constitutional courts arises because these courts have to juggle the crucial balancing act between...