HfP in the Media

Prof. Büthe commented on the US elections in the morning news program of Bavarian Public Radio 2, one of the most popular radio news programs in the German language.  The extremely close election result is largely unexpected, he notes, and in many ways a striking success for the Democrats. In… [read more]

"We didn't look for each other, but we found each other": This is what Thomas Strobl (CDU) said when the first green-black coalition in Baden-Württemberg came into power 2016. It was certainly not a “love marriage”, unlike the green-red coalition before. However, what was green-black? A… [read more]

The danger of social bots in political communication is often overestimated. Simon Hegelich explains in an interview with SZ that the danger lies more in the distortion of the perception in the political discourse: Some topics may seem more relevant than they are. This is a general problem of the… [read more]

In the latest university ranking by the Center for Higher Education (CHE), the Hochschule für Politik München (HfP) belongs to the top group in the discipline of "Political Science". In just a short time, the HfP, with its new transdisciplinary and application-oriented research approach "Bringing… [read more]

On 15 April, the AIDA and INGE Special Committees of the European Parliament were holding a hearing on the future of democracy in the digital age and on how to strike the right regulatory balances in our increasingly tech-driven societies. The two panels addressed the challenges the EU is facing in… [read more]

Prof. Miranda Schreurs, Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy, shares the current state of climate policy, current challenges for governments, and tips on how each of us can initiate change in the latest edition of the podcast series by the TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning. The podcast can be… [read more]

Prof. Janina Steinert, Professor for Global Health, has published an article together with Dr. Cara Ebert in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, an open-access journal for public health. The article on "Prevalence and risk factors of violence against women and children during COVID-19,… [read more]

In the opinion piece "Democracy Is Weakening Right in Front of Us" by Thomas B. Edsall, published in the prestigious New York Times, Prof. Theocharis, Chair of Digital Governance, talks about social media. Prof. Theocharis argues that social media needs to be seen as an incredibly potent medium in… [read more]

"Europe or nation state - who will save us from the COVID-19 crisis?" The young politician and founder of the think tank Dezernat Z, Philippa Sigl-Glöckner, Telefónica board member Valentina Daiber, Prof. Dr. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, reform rector and professor at the Hochschule für Politik… [read more]