Staatsvolk, Marktvolk, Gottesvolk. Überlegungen zur Postdemokratie als politikwissenschaftliche Anfrage an die christliche Sozialethik

Abstract

Capitalist globalization has put national democracy and its claim to egalitarian self-determination under significant pressure, to the degree that at least those conceptualizing democracy in a strongly participatory sense perceive it as “post-democracy” (Crouch). The article takes up several strands of the debate in political science and focuses then on the problem of interdependency, not only between people and capital but also between different peoples. Has not the capitalist erosion of democracy found the support of the majority because its credit has been and is the driving force for prosperity? To Christian social ethics and social science the question will be put if maybe the concept of God’s people could show a way out of the credit of post-democracy.