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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...

The Europa-Union together with the Europe Direct of the City of Nuremberg and the City of Nuremberg invited to a panel discussion in the Nuremberg City Hall on Friday, March 28, 2025. The City of Nuremberg was represented as co-organizer by Andreas Krieglstein, Chairman of the CSU City Council parli...

In the summer semester of 2025, Dr. Tim Griebel will once again offer the interdisciplinary seminar "Discourse, Power, Masculinity," which is open to a wide range of degree programs.

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 ...

On March 5, Prof. Dr. Eva Hausteiner from the Chair of Political Theory and the History of Ideas at FAU was a guest on the Deutschlandfunk program Agenda. The feature on "Difficult Conditions – Governing with the New Majorities" can be listened to here.

Dr. Simon Primus from the Chair of Comparative Political Science will be a guest on Frankenfernsehen this coming Sunday. In the special broadcast on the German federal election, key questions surrounding the election will be examined starting at 5:30 PM. From 6:00 PM onwards, forecasts and projections will be analyzed, and their implications discussed.

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 ...

As part of the ZDF election shows on February 13th and 20th, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel and the MFI team will conduct fact-checking on topics related to migration, displacement, and integration. This process takes place in close collaboration with the ZDF editorial team, which either commissions specifi...

On February 23, 2025, the Fachschaftsinitiative (FSI) cordially invites you to the election evening for the Bundestag elections at Kochstraße 4a (PSG III, blue building) starting from 4 pm! Together we want to follow the election results live, discuss them and spend the evening in a convivial atmosp...