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Environmental policy is no longer largely decided in Berlin, but in Brussels - according to a rough estimate, around 80 per cent of national legislation has its origins in European law. The EU institutions and in particular the European Parliament, which will be newly elected on 9 June 2024, are the...

In her contribution published in the Nürnberger Zeitung today, Prof Sandra Eckert, Chair of Comparative Politics, writes about why the European elections are important and what they are about. According to Eckert, Europe is not an abstract entity, but determines our everyday lives. Product standards...

This year's spring meeting hosted by the Bavarian Industry Association and its section Middle Franconia engaged with the future of the European single market. In her guest lecture, Prof. Dr Sandra Eckert, Chair of Comparative Politics, analysed the decision-making process of the European Union and a...

The Aarhus Institutes of Advanced Studies (AIAS) celebrated its 10-year anniversary on 13 June in Aarhus, Denmark. Prof. Sandra Eckert, who conducted research at AIAS since October 2019 until she started her position as full professor at FAU in August 2022, was invited to give a talk and moderate a ...

On May 25 Prof. Sandra Eckert (Chair in Comparative Politics) and Prof. Maria Rentetzi (Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies) held their inaugural lectures in the Orangerie in Erlangen. In his welcome speech Dean Rainer Trinczek gave an overview of the career path and the academic achieve...

Prof. Sandra Eckert (Chair in Comparative Politics) and Prof. Maria Rentetzi (Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies) will hold their inaugural lectures at the Orangerie in Erlangen on May 25th. Sandra Eckert will give a talk on the new challenges that the EU regulatory state is facing, and...

Prof. Sandra Eckert and Dr. Ronit Hanani (Tel Aviv University) have been directing the workshop »Towards a New Era of Environmental Risk Regulation in the EU? Analysing the EU Regulatory Approach in a Comparative Perspective« at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Toulouse (24-28 April). During the three day...

Prof. Sandra Eckert and Dr. Ronit Hanani (Tel Aviv University) are directing the workshop »Towards a New Era of Environmental Risk Regulation in the EU? Analysing the EU Regulatory Approach in a Comparative Perspective«  at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Toulouse (24-28 April). Workshop contributions co...

The environmental and health issues caused by the steady increase of the production and consumption of plastics has attracted increasing public attention over the past decade. Policymakers and industry propose the Circular Economy as the solution. Plastics shall remain in the loop as long as possibl...

Political Science has often been blind to political developments and changes beyond political centers as it focused almost exclusively on the national level. A new edited volume from the DFG-funded project on Decentralization in the Arab world at Erlangen’s Institute of Political Science now helps to diminish these caveats. The authors of the contribution widen their scientific scrutiny to subnational governance, informal politics and the importance of peripheral areas. Based on extensive fieldwork, the articles in this Open Access volume close important gaps in the vastly underresearched area of comparative decentralization reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).