Abstract
The number of the initiatives has increased steadily since 1973 - the answer-to-seize ratio has sunk continuously within these twenty years: If the number increased on the one hand the answer-to-seize ratio of the initiatives, this one considerably - on the other hand is the traffic initiatives in Berlin since the seventies in the time period 1973 - for himself 1993 had been based sunk from 34% (seventies) more than 16% (eighties) less than 11% (nineties) in Berlin.
For success and failure the factors sub-document cunnings or protest postcards, cooperation with representatives are in a significant coherence or district ordained making contact with the administration, mobilization of the population and technical competence.
The engagement into traffic citizens' action groups hasn't become only increasingly more unsuccessfully, it is also connected to a high degree of frustrations and disappointments for the active besides an immense time expenditure. It is the talk to to to fatalistic remarks as of "a depressing fight against windmills" "everything doesn't have any meaning anyway". The whole disappointment culminated in her traffic citizens' action group after do lasting for years, unsuccessful in the yell of an older activist already mentioned: "What else shall one do? Shall one throw bombs "?.
A further result gives information about typical "political personalities": 94% of the examined interview partners, had already politically or socially been active before. Much active voice start with the immediate or step-by-step retreat from the political engagement - this a further result the share essay 2:
Perhaps political and economic faint feelings of millions of people are con-con-reason for this, that an authoritative atmosphere concoction hostile to strangers has developed at a part of the German population to be not neglected already since some time any more (cf. Stöss 2000). More democracy would be no more risk but a chance in Germany today. The expiries experienced by citizens' action groups as "bill democratic" and the real influence possibilities at the so-called citizen participation have to be so reformed that the "spectator democracy" already diagnosed years ago, (water sprite 1986), of this republic is stood up into the situation, participation and discussion democracy develop into a real and self-confident. Democracy desire could place politics (him) for frustration spread in the country. The faint feelings determined in this work and faint experiences of engaged female citizens are at all events quiet but effective grave-diggers of the democracy. |
