The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.
A conjured-up polarisation endangers democracy
European societies are less polarised than in the United States—and than we are led to believe.
Johanna Lutz is director of the ‘Democracy of the Future’ programme of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regional Office for International Cooperation in Vienna. She studied political science, public law and intercultural business communication in Jena and Cairo.
The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.
European societies are less polarised than in the United States—and than we are led to believe.