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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).

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 ...

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...