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去同步的挑战和机制。我们强调时间因素对政治代理人和当代社会民主制度的影响。我们期望通过对政治和社会环境之间的界面的实证分析来获得相应的见解。这里不仅有不同的利益冲突，还有相互冲突的运营速度。为了捕捉到这一点，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)有关。这项调查是以三个中心研究假设为指导的。首先，它将检查现代社会中是否存在子系统的时间性去同步。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营速度。因此，政治等较慢的领域时间紧迫，并受制于加速领域的节奏。其次，将考察政治代表的时间要求和时间资源之间的关系。这是基于一种合理的怀疑，即决策问题在现代后期正变得更加复杂和耗时，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的能动进程而正在减少。我们假设，政治系统的预算目前正在形成巨大的“时间赤字”，迫切需要减少这种赤字，以保持民主的行动能力。第三，将分析政治行为者和机构如何应对亚系统在节奏和速度上的差异。在这种情况下，我们的假设是，一体化和监管的政治问题主要是通过发展混合型组织和构建议会外网络来解决的。为了实证检验这些观点，我们将收集政治体系的一个中央组织(德国联邦议院)以及在政治和社会环境之间发展起来的四个混合型组织(欧洲稳定机制、德国埃蒂克拉特、绿色和平、德国联邦议会)的数据。在这一过程中，有四种方法可以利用这种控制，并相互补充：以自我为中心的网络分析、专家访谈、文件分析和参与式观察。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后现代挑战作出建设性贡献。

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.