Contents Overview Democracy in School and Community - Learning to Participate - Learning Democracy Politics in the Federal States - What Role Does State Politics Play? The Importance of Family - How Important is Family to Us and to the State? Living in a Media Society - What Significance Do the Media Have for Us and for Democracy? The Importance of the Economy - What Does Competent Economic Action Entail? The Political Order in the Federal Republic of Germany - How Can Democracy Be Made Vibrant? Law and Jurisprudence - On the Importance of Rights, Duties, and Laws in Everyday Life. The European Union: Successes, Crises, and Challenges - How Much Do We Need a United Europe? Peacekeeping as a Task of International Politics - What Opportunities Exist for a More Peaceful World?.