News & Events
New publication: “Do They Get Close? Party Shifts and Changes in Parliamentary Congruence on Multiple Issue Dimensions in the Wake of the Crises"
Mirjam Dageförde
Sep 18, 2023
New publication: "The Rhetoric of Solidarity: Nature and Measurement of Social Cohesion in the Self-representation of Civil Society Organizations"
Rico Neumann, Barbara Pfetsch, Swen Hutter, Simon Koschut, David Schieferdecker & Jule Specht
Sep 04, 2023
Lecture: Has Globalization Reduced Worldwide Terrorist Attacks?
Gary LaFree (University of Maryland, USA) 13 September 2023, 4 pm | WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Raum A 300 | prior registration required Lecture series Civil Society and Political Conflict
Aug 15, 2023
LECTURE: Grassroot Activism as a Mainstreaming Strategy for the Populist Radical Right
Adrian Favero (University of Groningen, NL) 4 July 2023, 5.30 pm | hybrid event | prior registration required Lecture series Civil Society and Political Conflict
Jun 28, 2023
LECTURE: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right
Cynthia Miller-Idriss (American University Washington, DC) 15 June 2023, 5 pm | online | prior registration required Lecture series Civil Society and Political Conflict
May 17, 2023
New publication: “The mobilisation potential of anti-containment protests in Germany”
Sophia Hunger, Swen Hutter & Eylem Kanol
Jan 31, 2023
New Publication: "Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe"
Endre Borbáth, Swen Hutter & Arndt Leininger
Jan 23, 2023
10 November | "Politics Today – Dare to Think Big!"
Conference in Honor of Edgar Grande | Webinar
Oct 20, 2022
Out now: More stress, less voice? The gender gap in political participation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Roxana Burciu and Swen Hutter
Sep 21, 2022
Out now: Long-Term Dynamics of Voluntary Engagement: Differentiating Social Structural from Cohort and Period Effects
Jannes Jacobsen,David Schieferdecker, Denis Gerstorf, Swen Hutter & Jule Specht
Aug 03, 2022
Roundtable: Reviving Social Capital Theory or Searching for New Key Concepts?
July 7, 6 pm at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin with Paul Lichterman, Hjalmar Bang Carson, Priska Dahi and Hahrie Han
Jun 20, 2022
Out now: New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics
Swen Hutter, Manès Weisskircher
May 12, 2022
Out now: Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany
Manès Weisskircher, Swen Hutter, Endre Borbáth
May 12, 2022
Job Opening: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (65%, 3 Jahre, ab 1.9.22)
Zentrum für Zivilgesellschaftsforschung
May 11, 2022
LECTURE: Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation
Nicole Bolleyer (LMU Munich) 20 April 2022, 17:00 | on-site and online | prior registration required Lecture series Civil Society and Political Conflict
Mar 30, 2022
LECTURE: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion
Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton University ) 27 April 2022, 17:00 | online | prior registration required Lecture series Civil Society and Political Conflict
Mar 30, 2022
Out now: Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity
Studying the Dynamics of Government-Challenger Interactions edited by Abel Bojar, Theresa Gessler, Swen Hutter, Hanspeter Kriesi
Dec 06, 2021
Viel Hilfsbereitschaft, viel Protest
Polarisierung und Zusammenhalt liegen in der Pandemie nah beieinander Blogbeitrag von Gesine Höltmann und Swen Hutter
Jun 17, 2021
Out now: Die Zivilgesellschaft in der Krise
Einblicke aus einer Organisationsbefragung zu den Herausforderungen der COVID-19 Pandemie
Jun 17, 2021