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17MAR 2026
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The Autonomy of Universities in the USA Falls Far Behind Peer Group
Academic Freedom Index Update 2026 Released Institutional autonomy is essential for safeguarding academic freedom. Researchers at the FAU’s Institute of Political Science, in collaboration with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg, find a positive association between university autonomy and individual scholars’ freedom to research and teach and reflect on the […]Academic Freedom Index Update 2026 Released Institutional autonomy is essential for safeguarding academic freedom. Researchers at the FAU’s Institute of Political Science, in collaboration with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg, find a positive association between university autonomy and individual scholars’ freedom to research and teach and reflect on the […]
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12NOV 2025
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Long Night of Science
On October 25, 2025, the 12th Long Night of Science took place in Erlangen, Fürth, and Nuremberg. In front of the Audimax, Katrin Kinzelbach and Lars Lott from the Institute of Political Science informed visitors through an interactive exhibit on the topic of academic freedom. On the interactive multimedia table, visitors could explore the Academic […]
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30JUN 2025
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New Publication on Democratic Resilience
Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can the resilience capacity of democracies be operationalized and measured? In the recently published article “Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis”, published Political Studies, Aurel Croissant (Heidelberg University) and Lars Lott (FAU) examine how democratic resilience capacity can […]Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can the resilience capacity of democracies be operationalized and measured? In the recently published article “Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century: Search for an Analytical Framework and Explorative Analysis”, published Political Studies, Aurel Croissant (Heidelberg University) and Lars Lott (FAU) examine how democratic resilience capacity can […]
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02OCT 2024
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FAU Delegation at the GPSA Congress in Göttingen
The German Political Science Association (GPSA) organized its 29th Annual Congress under the theme ‘Politics in the Polycrisis’ at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 24 to 27 September 2024. FAU’s Institute of Political Science was strongly represented with seven lectures, four panels and two board candidates. Is the polycrisis really also a ‘polsci crisis’, as some […]
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15SEP 2024
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Academic Exchange at the APSA Annual Congress in Philadelphia
From September 5 to 8, Dr. Lars Lott and Dr. Simon Primus from the Institute of Political Science participated in the annual congress of the American Political Science Association. The APSA Annual Meeting is one of the world’s most important conferences, bringing together international scholars from all subfields of the discipline. Dr. Lott presented a […]
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