Desynchronized Society? Political Challenges At The Interfaces Of The Social

我们的项目考察了社会领域同步和非同步的挑战和机制。我们强调时间因素对当代社会的政治代理人和民主机构的影响。我们期望通过对政治与社会环境之间界面的实证分析得出相应的见解。在这里，不仅存在不同的利益冲突，而且存在操作速度的冲突。为了抓住这一点，政治的时间结构被设定为与生活的其他领域（经济、大众媒体、科学和自然）相关。该调查以三个中心研究假设为指导。首先，它将检查是否有子系统的时间不同步在现代社会。我们的假设是，经济和大众传媒对社会发展的影响越来越大，因为它们在数字通信技术的帮助下极大地提高了运行速度。因此，政治等较慢的领域受到时间的压力，并受制于加速场的节奏。其次，考察政治代表的时间要求与时间资源的关系。这是基于一种合理的怀疑，即决策问题在近代后期变得越来越复杂和耗时，因为民主进程只能以有限的方式加速，而政治决策者的时间资源由于外生动力过程而萎缩。我们认为，目前政治制度的预算中出现了巨大的“时间赤字”，必须紧急减少这种赤字，以保持民主的行动能力。第三，分析政治行为者和制度如何对节奏和速度的子系统差异作出反应。在这种情况下，我们的假设是，整合和监管的政治问题主要是通过混合型组织的发展和议会外网络的建设来解决的。为了从经验上检验这些论文，我们将在政治系统的中央组织（德国联邦议院）和四个混合组织中收集数据，这些组织是在政治与社会环境之间的界面上发展起来的（欧洲稳定机制，Deutscher Ethikrat，绿色和平组织，Bundespressekonferenz）。在这一点上，四种方法被用来控制和相互补充：以自我为中心的网络分析，专家访谈，文件分析和参与性观察。该项目旨在加强对社会时间结构的理论分析，并为理解西方民主国家的现代挑战做出建设性贡献。

Our project examines the challenges and mechanisms of the synchronisation and desynchronisation of social fields. We stress the influence of the time factor on political agents and on democratic institutions of contemporary society. We expect corresponding insights by an empirical analysis of the interfaces between politics and social environment. Not only heterogeneous interests, but also conflicting operation speeds are clashing here. In order to capture this, the temporal structures of politics are set in relation to other areas of life (economy, mass media, science and nature). The survey is guided by three central research hypotheses.First, it will be examined if there is a temporal desynchronization of subsystems in modern society. Our presumption is that economy and mass media have a growing influence on social developments, because they increased their operation speed extremely with the help of digital communication technology. Slower areas such as politics are thus pressed for time and subjected to the rhythm of the accelerated fields. Second, the relation between time requirements and time resources of political representatives will be examined. This is based on the justified suspicion that decision-making problems are getting more complex and time-consuming in late modern times, because democratic processes are only able to accelerate in a limited way, whereas the time resources of political decision-makers are shrinking due to exogenous dynamization processes. We assume that there is currently evolving an enormous 'time deficit' in the budget of the political system which must urgently be reduced in order to preserve democracy's capacity to act.Third, it will be analysed how political actors and institutions react to subsystematic differences in rhythm and speed. Our supposition in this case is that political problems of integration and regulation are primarily fought with the development of hybrid organisations and the construction of extra-parliamentary networks.To examine these theses empirically, we will collect data in a central organisation of the political system (Deutscher Bundestag) and in four hybrid organisations that developed at the interface between politics and social surrounding (European Stability Mechanism, Deutscher Ethikrat, Greenpeace, Bundespressekonferenz). At this, four methods are put to use that control and complement each other reciprocally: ego-centered network analyses, expert interviews, document analyses and participatory observations. The project aims to enhance the theory-based analysis of social time structures and to make a constructive contribution to understand the late-modern challenges of western democracies.