Interview with Philip Manow: “We can’t keep building the walls higher” – Culture

Do the constitutional courts in the USA or Germany really have so much power that they make democratic decisions subject to reservation? Philip Manow, political scientist at the University of Siegen and author of the book “Under Observation”, sees the success of populism as a reaction to an order with which politicians, lawyers and theorists of a liberal persuasion want to cement their understanding of the state – and in doing so endanger democracy.