human rights

Why does social policy vary across authoritarian regimes? In his recent article, “All that is left is all that matters: the politics of social spending in authoritarian regimes”, published in Democratization, Angelo Vito Panaro examines the extent to which (a) the presence of de jure multiparty elec...

How can the allocation process be made more suitable for people seeking protection and local authorities? With the “Match'In” pilot project, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Hildesheim have been pursuing the goal over the last four years of making the official allocation process more su...

On 13 March 2025, the team behind the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) project released the 2025 AFI Update. The annual report, a collaborative effort by political scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, provides ...

An international group of early career researchers came together at FAU from 10-14 February for the Geodata for Human Rights Winter School 2025. Jointly with FAU's Institute of Geography, the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, we organized ...

Four members of the Institute, Professor Dr Dr h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt, Prof Dr Marco Bünte, Prof Dr Thomas Demmelhuber and Prof Dr Katrin Kinzelbach are Fellows of the newly founded Bavarian Scientific Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. This alliance combines approaches from the soc...

Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School "Global Multiplicity" (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (political science) and Dominik Müller (anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How? The collaboration was...

From April 2nd to 6th, Dr. Johannes Jüde, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach and Dr. Lars Lott took part in the 2024 Congress of the International Studies Association (ISA). This year's theme was “Putting Relationality at the Center of International Studies”. The congress served international academic exch...

International scholarly collaboration is of great importance for understanding global developments. Researchers at FAU’s Institute of Political Science have been collaborating with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden for five years. They participate...

On 21 February 2024, Prof. Dr Katrin Kinzelbach took part in a public hearing in the German Bundestag as an expert. The Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment discussed the internationalisation of research and higher education. In their joint motion on the subject, the SPD, Bündn...

As part of the BMBF-funded project "Academic Freedom in the People's Republic of China (China)", Dr Alexandra Kaiser recently published an introduction to the Chinese higher education system. This introductory book sheds light on key aspects of academic freedom of teaching and research in China and ...