Research at the Chair of Political Theory and History of Political Thought

Specific areas of research conducted by staff cover a range of different topics. These include the social, historical and culture prerequisites of constitutions as an institutional political order and the analysis of constitutional jurisdiction in the field of contention between constitutionalism and democracy. This research is complemented by comparative analyses of the terms citizen, civility, citizenship and civil society in the relationships between state, economy and society.

Further fields of research undertaken by the Chair focus on empirical analyses of political outrage movements such as Pegida and how they should be interpreted on a cultural scientific level. Furthermore, staff at the Chair are looking at questions of migration and immigration as well as the characterisation of refugees in political theory.