• an enabling environment for joint political action and civil-society-based forms of social self-determination
• a political majority orientation based on the realization of basic values and related programmes for political action
• ongoing public discourse that highlights the rivalry between interests between the programmes for political action based on these interests, and also fuels the debate on an understanding of justice
• a public space for these discourses oriented to understanding and insight; the willingness to strike a balance between consensus and conflict.