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The “long summer of migration” is marking its tenth anniversary. Angela Merkel's widely quoted statement “We can do it,” which she made (for the first time) at the Federal Press Conference on August 31, 2015, became a leitmotif of integration policy and the associated social debate on the reception ...

In their essay on the Eric Voegelin Library, Dr. Eno Trimçev, the library’s director, and Dr. Łukasz Święcicki (University of Siedlce) introduce this lesser-known resource of European Voegelin research. The core of the Eric Voegelin Library – which in total houses five separate collections – consis...

Over 3500 participants attended the annual congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, among them parts of the Institute’s faculty. Lars Lott presented a paper on the connection between autocratization and its effects on universalism and the provision of social polic...

At an international human rights conference jointly organized by the University of Freiburg (FRIAS) and the Gladstein Familiy Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach participated in a panel discussion and gave a presentation on the Academic Freedom Index....

What is the state of Erlangen's climate policy six years after the city council declared climate emergency? On July 1, this question was the focus of a discussion on the film “Zusammen”, which portrays Erlangen's participation process. The event was organized by the Chair of Comparative Politics at ...

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 be operationalized and measured and to what extent it strengthens the resilience of democracies to autocratization.