Ideology and attitudes, Concept of democracy, Critique of civilisation (starting with Rousseau), Democracy and power, Information and knowledge society, Intellectual history of the nation and welfare state, Modernity, late modernity and post-modernity, Natural law and contract theory (social perceptions in the Age of Enlightenment), Philosophy of law, Political economics and economic criticism, Religion and politics, Society and citizens, State and sovereignty, The idea of progress, Theories of democracy