The book contains a set of very different analytical and practical perspectives on education for sustainable development (ESD). Among other issues, it addresses topics linked to urban mobility, critical theory and ESD, museums and ESD, or university governance towards sustainable development. The…
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Floods have affected 2.3 billion people worldwide in the last 20 years, and are associated with a wide range of negative health outcomes. Climate change is projected to increase the number of people exposed to floods due to more variable precipitation and rising sea levels. This systematic review…
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In a recent publication, Varieties of neoliberalism: courts, competition paradigms and the Atlantic divide in antitrust, Dr. Chase Foster uses comparative case studies of antitrust policy in Europe and the United States to explore the role of courts in developing the policy paradigms used by…
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Dr. Cindy Cheng and Luca Messerschmidt from the Chair of International Relations (Prof. Tim Büthe) discuss how the CoronaNet Research Project (https://www.coronanet-project.org), the world’s largest database on COVID-19 government policies, came about and where its going next with the Süddeutsche…
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In their paper Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy Markus B. Siewert together with Pascal König (TU Kaiserslautern / Harvard University) and Kathrin Ackermann (Heidelberg University) provide a systematic review of 30 years of research on citizen attitudes towards…
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Prof. Katrin Paula, together with Prof. Sabine Carey (University of Mannheim) and Prof. Neil Mitchell (UCL) published a new article “The Life, Death and Diversity of Pro-Government Militias: The Fully Revised Pro-Government Militias Database Version 2.0.” in Research & Politics 9(1). The data are…
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HfP Professors Amy Pond, Timm Betz and Tim Büthe will host the first joint International Political Economy conference of the Austrian, German, and Swiss Political Science Associations at the Technical University of Munich's Akademiezentrum Raitenhaslach on 20 - 22 June 2022. Scholars who are…
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The European Research Council awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Timm Betz for his project "Politics, Institutions, and Production Networks." ERC Grants are among Europe's most prestigious research grants. They fund innovative frontier research, and provide support up to € 1.5 million for up to five…
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The Chair for International Relations (Prof. Dr. Tim Büthe) invites applications for research internships for three and a half months, full time (or seven months part time). The research internships count for the 18 ECTS internship requirement for the HfP M.Sc. degree. Interns will contribute to…
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Prof. Wurster, Dr. Siewert and Dr. Pascal D König published an new research article with the title “Consumers are willing to pay a price for explainable, but not for green AI. Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis” in Big Data & Society. A major challenge with the increasing use of…
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