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Der Konstanzer Politikwissenschaftler und Ungleichheitsforscher wurde in die neu eingesetzte Enquetekommission „Krisenfeste Gesellschaft“ des baden-württembergischen Landtags berufen.

Vaccine hesitancy has been around since long before the coronavirus pandemic. A research team from Konstanz and Berlin is now examining how vaccination rates and vaccine hesitancy developed in the time before the pandemic.

In a major Op-Ed, the New York Times discusses the possible evolution of America's welfare state should Donald Trump once again lead the country in 2025 - and interviews Cluster speaker Prof. Dr. Marius R. Busemeyer and his colleague Dr. Philip Rathgeb (University of Konstanz / University of Edinburgh) in detail.

A new report by the OECD and the Bertelsmann Foundation examines the state of the middle class in Germany, and finds that the middle class is significantly smaller today than it was in the mid-1990s. Valentina Consiglio, co-author of the study and a PhD student here at the Cluster, will present the study to us in more detail on December 22, 2021. More information about it and a brief summary of the findings is available here.

Konstanzer Langzeitstudie stellt fest, dass besonders jüngere ArbeitnehmerInnen dem Arbeiten im Homeoffice positiv gegenüberstehen. Ein Sechstel von ihnen würden für garantierte Homeoffice-Tage sogar Gehaltseinbußen in Kauf nehmen.

Ever since publishing two pertinent studies, her telephone hasn't stopped ringing: Behavioural economist and psychologist Dr. Katrin Schmelz explains diverse aspects of society's readiness to comply with containment measures and get vaccinated (mandatorily or voluntarily), in the press, radio and on TV.

Here she has some answers for the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.

Researchers of the Clusters of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" and "Contestations of the Liberal Script – SCRIPTS", as well as Public and Global Health experts from medicinal research and/or governmental institutions such as the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) or international organizations, discuss pressing questions of compliance in an ongoing health crisis. The aim is to foster an interdisciplinary knowledge exchange between theory and practice, between science, society and…

Cluster-PI Christian Breunig, Professor für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, erklärt im Interview mit detektor.fm, welche Folgen die Zusammensetzung des neuen Bundestags mit sich bringt: Vertreten Junge, Frauen, Migrant*innen auch inhaltlich die Belange "ihrer" Gruppen?

Political scientists at the University of Konstanz investigate citizens’ expectations of their governments in 24 OECD countries in response to increasing automatization and digitalization of their workplace.