How do elected representatives understand democracy and their own role in it?
In a new paper with @haefner and [email protected] in German Politics, we present results of a survey conducted among German legislators in state parliaments and the Bundestag in 2022.
@landwehr_c@haefner@politicalscience@stallbaum If „Democracy's resilience arguably depends on political elites' loyalty to the political system“ something is very wrong with the political system…
Doom thinking is unproductive, I know, but it is hard not to feel a type of existential dread when faced with the latest climate science research. The ongoing research on the AMOC (Atlantic Meridian Ocean Current), for example, provides more and more terrifying results.
Political scientists: I really feel that we need to be fully aware of this research and we need to integrate it more seriously in our own research programmes!
@Marielle_W@politicalscience@tanyalokot#Freedomhouse totally belongs in the #hypocrisy dog house. They claim to “Protect a Free and #OpenInternet” and yet their own website is on a repressive exclusive #Cloudflare site. WTF. They actually claim¹ CF can talk about “Internet blocking and the consequences for human rights.” I had a medical emergency & could not access health info because of Cloudflare.
Interesting study by Schuster et al. suggesting that cycling in urban areas has a positive effect on the common good (i.e. political participation, social participation in organizations, neighbourhood solidarity, and neighbourly helpfulness)
In the latest episode of the Conflict Tipping Podcast, we explore the often overlooked but vital topic of mental health amidst conflict. Join us as Dr. Nawaraj Upadhaya discusses the importance of primary mental health care, and how he is trying to make it more accessible in crisis areas.
Find the episode on your podcast platform of choice, or linked below!
Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?
Throwback Thursday election version! Twin Cities CBS TV affiliate, @wcco anchors (L to R) Skip Loescher, Dave Moore, Pat Miles, reporting on the returns at the Control Data Corporation news desk on election night November 2, 1982.
It's official: Tremendously looking forward to being part of the ARM consortium which has received Horizon funding to comparatively study authoritarian states' suppression of information as a part of their foreign policy and towards diasporas in Europe. I'll lead the Work Package on Russia.
Wie alt ist das deutsche Bundesrecht? Ein Maßstab dafür kann das Ausfertigungsjahr sein.
Hier sehen wir die Anzahl aller 6736 Bundesgesetze und -verordnungen auf www.gesetze-im-internet.de am Stichtag (3. Oktober 2023), gruppiert nach Ausfertigungsjahr, unabhängig davon ob sie im Internet mit oder ohne Text veröffentlicht wurden (ca. 1000 Rechtsakte sind ohne Text). Berücksichtigt sind nur Stammgesetze, keine Änderungsgesetze.
Grateful for Oct. trips to Capitol Hill to offer historical perspective on AI and to frame contemporary social risks and opportunities--first at the @AHAHistorians AHA Congressional Briefing on AI w/ Janet Abbate @nescioquid & Matt Connelly (to air on CSPAN) then at the AI Policy Symposium and Inauguration of Academic Alliance for AI Policy (for which I & the Babbage Institute will be ongoing participants)
Today's image of the day shows Joe Sullivan (seated) and Tom Burke (standing) using PLATO terminals to record Hennepin County election returns at the Minneapolis Business & Technical Center, as local CBS TV affiliate WCCO films the action, 1982.