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Open roundtable organized by the WZB research group Global Humanitarian Medicine

Authoritarian Politics and International Relations (APIR) seminar with Daniëlle Flonk (Hertie School)

Discussion with Gesine Schwan and Daniel Ziblatt. The spread of illiberal and autocratic tendencies challenges Europe's democracies. While in some European countries democratic institutions are already eroding, illiberal political parties are on the rise in others. How can we protect Europe's democracies from such dangers? This question is at the core of the closing event …

Lecture by Julian Eckl, post-doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen. Please register by November 13 by writing an e-mail to lisa.maassen.wzb.eu

APIR seminar with Sarah Eaton (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Armin Müller (Jacobs University Bremen)

Dahrendorf Conference 2019 Selected experts from academia and politics will explore the following questions: What is the relevance of Ralf Dahrendorf’s work for the social and political sciences? Which of his contributions have stood the test of time and continue to be relevant today? Is democracy indeed in crisis? Is European integration in crisis? Does …

Lecture by S.M. Amadae, University of Helsinki This lecture responds to two puzzles. The first is why it is not more widely accepted that the neoliberal era can be effectively understood to be a marriage between an Ordoliberal celebration of free markets and the late twentieth-century rational choice revolution in the social sciences. The second …

APIR seminar with Ezgi Pinar (METU) Discussant: İrem Ebetürk (WZB)

Talk by Christoffer Green-Pedersen, University of Aarhus Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-based according to the interpretation by Green-Pedersen’s latest book “The Reshaping of West European Party Politics”. In the book, Green-Pedersen develops a new issue incen­tive model of party competition, …

APIR seminar with Astrid Hedin (Malmö University)

APIR seminar with Didem Aydurmus. Didem Aydurmus will talk about Ecoauthoritarianism: Although there is no empirical evidence for a direct connection between democracy and sustainability, the former is often thought as a precondition to the latter. Even in political science, the capacity of democracy to produce green politics is rarely questioned. However, there are various …

Authoritarian Politics and International Relations (APIR) seminar with Mariam Salehi (WZB)

WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences  - Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics by Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences ("social preferences"), but knowledge about the distribution of these preferences in …

China und die westlich-liberalen Demokratien in der Systemkonkurrenz: Zeigt die Bewältigung der Corona-Krise die Überlegenheit einer technokratischen Autokratie? Michael Zürn (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) & Jürgen Gerhards (Freie Universität Berlin) Bitte melden Sie sich bei Interesse hier für das Kolloquium an. Mehr Informationen hier.  

Why do International Health Experts Promise Magic? Policy Construction and Authority Relations at the International Sanitary Conference of 1892 Luis Aue (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) If you are interested, please register for the colloquium here. More information here.