Transnational-Resilient Democracy. On the Conditions for Party Ban Proceedings in Interlegal Systems – Contradiction Studies

Transnational-Resilient Democracy. On the Conditions for Party Ban Proceedings in Interlegal Systems

Contribution

Nils Kohlmeier & Andreas Gutmann

2024

On 13.11.2024, a group of 113 members of the German Bundestag tabled a motion to initiate proceedings to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The debate to date has focused on the requirements and prospects of success of a (partial) ban of the party from a constitutional perspective (in particular here and here). The national perspective threatens to distort the view of transnational interlegalities and does not do justice to the state of European integration.

The full contribution to the Verfassungsblog can be found here.

Verfassungsblog: On Constitutional Matters. Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung.

DOI: 10.59704/a7e38ff8456f72b2

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idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff

relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”
Ingo H. Warnke

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau

power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel