Societal Self-empowerment in Germany: A Comparison of Fridays for Future and Corona Skepticism

Foreword
Contents
1 Societal Self-Empowerment: Concept and Classification
2 What is Societal Self-Empowerment?
	2.1 Self-Empowerment as an Idealistic, Political or also Ethically Motivated Violation of Law
	2.2 Legal Justification of Prima Facie Self-Empowerments
	2.3 Two Examples of Rights-Infringing Self-Empowerment
	2.4 Self-Empowerment within the Law
	References
3 How Much Societal Self-Empowerment is There?
	3.1 The Abstract Level
	3.2 Societal Self-Empowerment and the Fridays for Future Movement
	3.3 Societal Self-Empowerment with Respect to Corona Restrictions
	3.4 Societal Self-Empowerment in the Empirical Cases in Comparison
	3.5 Summary
	References
4 Corona Self-Empowerment
	4.1 Data and Method
	4.2 Socio-Economic Factors
	4.3 Affectedness by the Pandemic and the Measures to Combat it
	4.4 Trust in Institutions and Actors
	4.5 Self-Efficacy
	4.6 Problem-Solving Ability of the Political System
	4.7 Party Preferences
	4.8 Interpersonal Trust and Conspiracy Mentality
	4.9 Attitude Towards Self-Empowerment
	4.10 Summary
	References
5 Fridays for Future Self-empowerment
	5.1 Data and Method
	5.2 Socio-economic Factors
	5.3 Trust in Institutions and Actors
	5.4 Self-efficacy
	5.5 Problem-solving Ability of the Political System
	5.6 Party Preferences
	5.7 Interpersonal Trust and Conspiracy Mentality
	5.8 Attitude towards Self-empowerment
	5.9 Summary
	References
6 Discussion: Between Representational Gap and Conspiracy Belief
	6.1 Instrumental vs. Expressive Self-empowerment
	6.2 Party Convergence and the Representational Gap
	6.3 The Representational Gap and Satisfaction with Democracy
	6.4 The Representational Gap from a Psychological Perspective
	6.5 Summary
	References
7 Conclusion: What to do Against (Expressive) Self-empowerment?
	7.1 Summary of Findings
	7.2 What to do?
	References
Appendix 1: Questionnaire Design, Representativeness of Respondents and Variable Coding
	Questionnaire Design
	Representativeness
	Variable Coding
	References
Appendix 2: Questionnaire of the online survey