Verschlagwortet: Menschen- und Bürgerrechte
Abstract [en]: In the second part of his publication, Bruno Heidlberger analyses – against the back-ground of the Covid-19 crisis – the features of conspiracy theories, their causes, functions, and psychological stabilising functions. He understands conspiracy ideologies as well as reactionist nationalism in line with a dialectic of enlightenment as „the other to reason“, as the dark side and counter...
Abstract [en]: COVID-19 leat to radical measures and a shift of politics towards executive action. Linked was a shift in discourses, especially those linked to human rights. As the executive actors can govern in democratically at least on the long run problematic ways, one human right is put before all else: the right to life. This starts to change, another...
Abstract [en]: In this short essay, I ask if the technical possibilities of surveillance inherent in most digital communication question the direction of control the public sphere exercises. Specifically, I argue that the current state of digital transparency endangers the capacity of the public to control its representatives. Based on this finding, I discuss if a technology such as block...
Abstract [en]: Political and social upheavel such as the fall of the Iron Curtain often result in a new constitutional order. Having regained their liberty and national independence, Central and East European states – Poland and Hungary as example – required guidance for their deliberations and, therefore, turned to different democratic Western-atlantic constitutions. One happened to be the Fundamental Law....
