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Change as a permanent state? Party systems and political competition in contemporary democracy

PD Dr. Aiko Wagner

In his DFG-funded project, PD Dr Aiko Wagner investigates the current transformation of party systems in European democracies. The central concern of the project is to clarify whether this change is a transitional phenomenon that leads to a re-stabilisation of the ties between the parties and ...

Gefördert durch die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Youth Study on the 2024 European elections in Germany

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer

June 9, 2024 is of particular importance from the perspective of young people in Germany, especially 16- and 17-year-olds: many will be able to vote in an election for the first time. The European elections will be the first nationwide election in Germany with a lowered voting age of 16 years. ...

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CliWaC - Climate and Water under Change

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas

The Einstein Research Unit Climate and Water under Change (CliWaC) is a trans-disciplinary research initiative of the Berlin University Alliance, which is investigating water-related risks of climate change in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. CliWaC brings together social, scientific and practical ...

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Berlin Election Study 2023: Scaring away the young?

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Dr. Heiko Giebler

Election day in Berlin on 26 September 2021, with its multiple organisational deficiencies, long waiting times and missing ballot papers, is not remembered fondly by most Berliners. The result is an almost unprecedented situation in the Federal Republic of Germany, in which the elections to the ...

Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research

RAPID-COVID: Receiving and Accepting Public Information Despite Polarization: Key to Overcoming COVID-19

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Dr. David Schieferdecker

RAPID-COVID is designed to produce insights about the information level about COVID-19 and the willingness to accept authoritative decisions to cope with the pandemic among the public. The project is located at the intersection of political communication, political psychology, and political ...

Corona Talk with Maybrit Illner, Anne Will & Frank Plasberg: Partisan and superficial or balanced and informative?

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas

An Analysis of the quality of discussions on the Covid-19 pandemic in selected German political talk shows

gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung

Perception and Behavour Adaptation in Times of Corona

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas Prof. Dr. Gert G Wagner Dr. Nico A. Siegel Simon Richter

The current corona pandemic represents a huge exogenous shock, challenging the resilience and coping mechanisms of society, the political system, but also each individual citizen. We can make use of the quasi-experimental setting that the pandemic provides us with to study preconditions of ...

Youth Election Study 2021

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Jun.-Prof. Arndt Leininger, Ph.D.

The project follows the Youth Election Study 2019, which surveyed young people in Brandenburg and Saxony after the state elections, and continues this with a new survey of participants in Brandenburg and Saxony in the wake of the 2021 federal elections. In addition, another register-based survey ...

Youth Election Study 2019 Brandenburg and Saxony

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Arndt Leininger, Ph.D

The starting point of the project is the debate about a possible lowering of the voting age from 18 to 16, which has been controversially discussed in public as well as in academia. The aim of the research project is to analyse political attitudes and behavioural intentions of young people, using ...

Citizens, Elections, and Democracy: Unified Germany in Cross-National and Historical Perspective

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas

Based on a post-election survey conducted in the aftermath of the 2017 German Federal Election, the study focuses on political intermediation, the structuring of basic socio-political conflicts, citizens’ understanding(s) of democracy and their views on the integrity of the electoral process. ...

Voting at 16?

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Arndt Leininger, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher; Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer

The decrease and growing social imbalance of voter turnout have triggered a reform debate about the electoral right to vote. One of the most prominent ideas is the proposal to lower the voters’ age at 16. In a number of Bundesländer, it has already happened at the state diet and municipal ...

The Dynamics of Voting: A Long-term Study of Change and Stability in the German Electoral Process, Teilmodul Televised Debates 2017

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Maier, Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier Gesamtprojekt: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Prof. Dr. Harald Schoen, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf

In cooperation with the University of Koblenz-Landau we analyzed the TV debate of the German national elections in 2017 between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her opponent Martin Schulz on September 3. Long established in the USA, TV debates have developed into significant and outstanding events ...