How democracies survive in times of crisis Karsten Fischer believes in the resilience of liberal democracies. But this resilience cannot be achieved by commissioning a campaign to the Federal Agency for Civic Education. What is needed is a constructive and lively debate about the value of democracy.
How democracies survive in times of crisis Karsten Fischer believes in the resilience of liberal democracies. But this resilience cannot be achieved by commissioning a campaign to the Federal Agency for Civic Education. What is needed is a constructive and lively debate about the value of democracy. Stephan Höck, Marc Vorwerk/ SULUPRESS.de/ Picture Alliance, Collage: chm - Karsten Fischer, a political scientist at LMU, discusses the extent to which liberal democracies still stand for social progress at a time when populism is prevalent on all sides. Ask Karsten Fischer what progress means in the context of democracy and the political scientist begins by quoting rock musician Bono. Bono? Yes, because in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper three years ago, the U2 front man wrote that "there has never been a better time or a better place to be born than in Europe during the last 50 years". Coming from someone whose perhaps best-known song is about a massacre during the Northern Irish 'Troubles' 50 years ago, that is a remarkable statement: On 'Bloody Sunday' on 30 January 1972, 13 people were killed and another 13 injured by the British Army.
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