On September 17, 2025, the dissertation of our former researcher Dr. Jacob Ulrich was published, titled »Intra-Party Competitive Democracy: A Law-and-Economics Analysis of Party Organization in Light of the Requirement of Intra-Party Democracy under Article 21(1), Sentence 3 of the German Basic Law.«

The work examines, using law-and-economics methods and an original empirical study, whether party law and party statutes comply with constitutional requirements and ensure a free and equal competition within parties. The dissertation is available from Mohr Siebeck in print as well as open access.

We warmly congratulate Dr. Jacob Ulrich on this publication.

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