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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.

Katrin Schmelz, psychologist and behavioral economist at the Cluster, investigates the factors that influence decision-making: How can the government ensure compliance with measures to stop the virus? Why do vaccination campaigns lose effectiveness? What will the reaction be if – when? – governments must enforce mandatory vaccination?

Steht der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt auf der Kippe? Das fragt die heutige Sendung des 'Tagesgesprächs' auf BR24. Cluster-Co-Sprecherin Claudia Diehl geht live auf Publikumsfragen ein.

Immer mehr jüngere Menschen und auch Menschen, die aus medizinischen Gründen nicht geimpft werden können, machen sich Sorgen. Bleibt die Mitmenschlichkeit ein Stück weit auf der Strecke? Was wäre verhandelbar? Wo endet Ihre Solidarität?

Wie können wir also das gegenseitige Verständnis befördern, damit…

Funded through the research prize of the Dr. K. H. Eberle Foundation amounting to 250,000 euros, the Center for Image Analysis in the Social Sciences (CIASS) will be established at the University of Konstanz.

New Policy Paper out now: Seven researchers of the Cluster of Excellence "Politics of Inequality" of the University of Konstanz investigate perceptions and opinions on structural inequalities in the coronavirus crisis - based on representative surveys. (Policy Paper only in German)

On national TV, economist Prof. Dr. Friedrich Breyer explains the challenges faced by public pension funds in the years and decades to come - including the heated debate on whether the legal retirement age should be raised to 68 years („Grenzen der gesetzlichen Rente“, ARD Alpha, 20 July 2021).

Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Nils-Christian Bormann publishes an article on the blog "Political Violence at a Glance" and supplies answers to three pressing questions concerning the civil war in Ethiopia: What type of conflict is happening in Tigray? What are the chances for conflict resolution? And what is the danger that the conflict will spread beyond Ethiopia?