Die Politik der Gesellschaft

In this book, Niklas Luhmann elaborates the role of the political system in society, from the perspective of his social systems theory.

The book provides how the political systems of societies are connected to, influencing and influenced by other functional systems of society, such as the economy, the legal system, etcetera.

In some of his analyses, Luhmann presents the view that the function of the political system is not per se to decide and solve problems, and that in some cases its role is for topics to become discussable at all.