Demokratie ohne Gesetze

Couldn't there be another way?
We believe that rules and laws are there to protect us and our coexistence. They prevent our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how could we tell right from wrong, live well in our communities and be good neighbours to each other?
C.L. Skach sees it differently. Her career as a legal scholar has taken her to the most fractured and war-torn corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions to stabilise local societies. But as she sat alone in a caravan in Baghdad after a rocket attack, she finally admitted to herself what she had been suppressing for years: a good society cannot be decreed from above. Rather, it is created by relying less on externally imposed rules and more on each other - because everyone is an essential part of society. In her book, Skach presents six ideas that can bring about real change from the bottom up and enable a completely new, more stable, more fulfilling and more self-effective way of living together.