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The Regional Agency for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg (lpb bw) releases a double issue of its journal Bürger & Staat celebrating the German unity in 2020. Erlangen’s Erik Vollmann contributes an analysis of the support for democracy in Eastern and Western Germany. Not unifying or unified ... Continue

As the result of a two-day workshop in Gothenburg in March 2020, Miriam Bohn and Erik Vollmann both research fellows in the DFG funded project "Decentralization in the Arab World: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan from a comparative perspective" contributed to the latest publication of the “Program... Continue

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International Workshop „Hobbes and Gender“. Registration: eva.odzuck@fau.de. More information: Poster (PDF) und Program (PDF) Continue

Betty Kaari Murungi is a lawyer with almost 30 years of experience on a national, regional and international level, and for over 10 years she has been gathering experiences in the field of management and governance of NGOs. After her law studies and a year of research at the human rights program in ... Continue

Austerity is hotly debated topic within the social sciences. It cannot be reduced to spending cuts, but has to be understood as a complex social phenomenon with consequences for mental health and well-being, social equality, politics and everyday life. Some observers therefore, speak of an “age of a... Continue