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Politics, Law and Citizens’ Responsibility. Justice Judgements in the Everyday Reconstruction of Environmental Conflicts

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Our contribution deals with citizens’ understanding of formal institutions such as law and politics. With regard to responsibility for environmental damages in the past and risk management in the future this understanding entails a variety of different concepts about individual, collective and institutional commitment and their interrelationship. It is maintained that the range of these ideas depends on the complexity of justice judgements.

This paper is based on data from different projects funded by the German Research Council (DFG), conducted at the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken and the German Institute of International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt/Main. The authors would like to thank Ingrid Plath for her critical remarks.

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Breit, H., Döring, T., Eckensberger, L.H. (2003). Politics, Law and Citizens’ Responsibility. Justice Judgements in the Everyday Reconstruction of Environmental Conflicts. In: Breit, H., Engels, A., Moss, T., Troja, M. (eds) How Institutions Change. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80936-0_11

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