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Prof. Gerald Schneider was interviewed by Südkurier as part of a comparison between Germany and Switzerland on the different civil liberties and the exercise of democracy in the two countries. The article can be read in German online here.

Niklas Hänze, our graduate student in the M.A. Political Science and Public Administration, is the recipient of the Christiane-Rajewsky Award from the Association for Peace and Conflict Studies for his outstanding master's thesis. Mr. Hänze received the award for his thesis, "Reversing the Causal Arrow: The Nexus Between Armed Conflict and Natural Disasters," in which he used quantitative methods to investigate the extent to which violent conflict contributes to the occurrence of natural…

On 04.03.2023 Prof. Eva Thomann spoke in the 12th episode of the podcast "Durchblick, der Podcast gegen Korruption" of Transparency International Germany about the topic "Corruption risks in measures to cope with the corona crisis".

The report explains how the new study by Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Koos, along with Pascal Mounchid and Max Heermann, explores the motivations for citizens to advocate for equitable distribution of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic.

A new study by Adrian Rinscheid and Marius Busemeyer shows that the commuter allowance is unsocial and harmful to the environment. But the knowledge about it is very small in the population. Every fourth person considers the commuter allowance to be social, reports the newspaper "Die Zeit" in an article about the study. Public information could change the debate about it and strengthen climate protection, the authors state in their study.

Nona Bledow, a graduate of the PhD program at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, is awarded the Südwestmetall-Förderpreis 2023 for her outstanding dissertation at the University of Konstanz in 2022. Ms. Bledow receives the honor for her work on "Labor Unions in the Contemporary Welfare State: Preferences, Salience, Positions." The award ceremony will take place on April 19, 2023, and the prize is endowed with €5,000.

In the SWR aktuell television and radio news Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider comments on the announcement of the German and American governments on tank deliveries for Ukraine.

Prof. Sven Jochem comments on the news from Sweden in the WDR 5 Politikum podcast and advises a differentiated view of Swedish society.

Prof. Florian Kunze explains, in the SWR2 Wissen Podcast, why he thinks critical of the concept of generational differences in the world of work and points out that young professionals can and would make high demands on employers in times of a shortage of skilled workers.