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Student Assistant in the Project „Digitainability: Promoting Responsibility & Implementing Innovations through Project-based Learning“ (m/f/d)

Prof. Stefan Wurster was a guest in the new episode of the Politischer Pausen Podcast. In addition to the example of 'smart cities', the conversation also focuses on general questions, interactions and political design options in the tense relationship between digitalisation and sustainability.

Ahmed Maati highlights three characteristics of digital technologies that render them susceptible to authoritarianism: the far-reaching capabilities of these technologies, their entrenchment in a reinforcing ecosystem, and the general lack of literacy regarding digital technologies. He emphasizes…

Dr. des. Ahmed Maati moderates (with Prof. Dr. Katrin Paula) a discussion with Professor Dr. Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz), Dr. Eda Keremoglu (University of Konstanz), and Mr. Nicolas Zahn (Swiss Digital Initiative) on infrastructural control of the internet.

In spring 2022, the German federal government agreed on a set of measures that aimed at reducing households' financial burden resulting from a recent price increase, especially in energy and mobility. These measures included among others, a nation-wide public transport ticket for 9EUR per month and…

Loder, Allister/Cantner, Fabienne/Cadavid, Andrea/Siewert, Markus B./Wurster, Stefan/Goerg, Sebastian/Bogenberger, Klaus 2022: A nation-wide experiment: fuel tax cuts and almost free public transport for three months in Germany -- Report 3 Second wave results, arXiv

From a comparative politics perspective political climate change or even manifold climate changes pose several critical questions, both theoretically and empirically. The Conference wants to bring together scholars who examine these changes and their consequences in a comparative fashion and invite…

In cooperation with the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM) and the TUM Think Tank at the Hochschule für Politik (HFP), TUM was able to apply successfully with the project "sustAInability" at the bidt digitization college call 2022. It is conducted by Prof. Dr. Stefan Wurster (Principal…

An new publication is out: Democratic health in the corona pandemic. The corona pandemic as a trigger or amplifier of democratic erosion or autocratization?

Job Announcement: Student Assistant in the Project „Digitainability: Promoting Responsibility & Implementing Innovations through Project-based Learning“ (m/f/d)

Digital and Sustainable-What does the City of the Future need? | Prof. Stefan Wurster

A new Publication is out: COVID-19 and digital authoritarianism: Identifying risks and countermeasures

Who controls the Internet? A comparative view on democracies and autocracies

Can democracy be sustainable? A discussion with Prof. Dr. Stefan Wurster

A new article is out: A nation-wide experiment: fuel tax cuts and almost free public transport for three months in Germany

A new publication is out: A nation-wide experiment: fuel tax cuts and almost free public transport for three months in Germany -- Report 3 Second wave results

Prof. Dr. Wurster takes part at the Conference of the Research Section "Comparative Politics" of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)

bidt digitization college "sustAInability" starts at the Professorship for Policy Analysis