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On January 23rd, 2025 Prof. Petra Bendel addressed the role of the media and its influence on political and societal attitudes towards migration during the 19th SWR Media Forum on Migration with this years motto entitled “We, Here. Debates of a Migration Society.” She called for a more factual and g...

Research colloquium on political theory and the history of ideas – PD Dr. Ariane Leendertz (Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften) – Governing in the Interdependence Zone: The Conference of Minister Presidents in the History of the Federal Republic of Germany – Monday, January 27, 18:15-19:45, Kochstr. 4, Room 00.012

From September 30 - October 2, 2025, the second part of the double conference of the DVPW Section for Political Theory and History of Ideas will take place in Erlangen. It is dedicated to the basic concept of the public sphere in political theory. The conference in Erfurt in March 2025, which will f...

Professor Dr. Michael Krennerich passed away on December 28, 2024 after a long and serious illness surrounded by his family. A detailed obituary is published in German.

In collaboration with federal states, municipalities, and representatives of refugees, a team from FAU and the University of Hildesheim, together with four federal states, has developed a mechanism to distribute asylum seekers from federal states to municipalities. Using an algorithm, the individual...

On the evening of the U.S. election, we invited students to an information and discussion evening titled "America Votes: The 2024 Presidential Election in Focus." The event was organized by the FSI Politics, Dr. Simon Primus from the Chair of Comparative Political Science, and Dr. Kristina Maul, an ...

The Institute of Political Science cordially invites you to a lecture by Stuart Nicolson titled "And the rest is history… Political Communication in the Disinformation Age – Experiences from the Inside". Until last year, Stuart Nicolson served as the head of communications/ spokesman for Scotland’s ...

A panel discussion bringing together political scientists from different subfields in order to address the outcome and significance of this year's European elections took place on 1st July in the FAU Senate Hall as part of the series "The EU before the elections" (organized by Prof. Dr. Sandra Ecker...

On June 9, 2024, EU voters elected a new European Parliament. Eurosceptic and populist parties made unprecedented gains across Europe. The fact that the democratic, non-populist center therefore lost ground is an expression of increasing democratic regression in the pan-European context. In this res...

The European elections 2024 raise exciting questions for political scientists. Current forecasts see Eurosceptic and populist parties on the left and right of the political spectrum making significant gains. This is a development across Europe which is currently particularly visible in Germany and A...