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Jun.-Prof. Jan Vogler has published an article in the U.S. daily Politico on the democratizing effect of the black plague in the Middle Ages together with Prof. Daniel W. Gingerich from the University of Virgina. In the article, the authors examine the effect of stronger bargaining power of workers during a pandemic. The article can be found online here.

Several Gabonese media report on a workshop on African party labelling co-organised by Dr Anja Osei at the Omar Bongo University in Libreville. Both Gabonese television and online media report on the workshop in the Gabonese capital. The television reports in French can be found here and here. Online articles on the workshop, also in French, can be found here and here.

Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig speaks in an interview on ZDFHeute Nachrichten on the subject of the replacement of the German Bundestag in view of the Bundestag elections in 2021. The entire program can be found on Youtube here. The segment with Prof. Breunig starts at minute 22:45.

In addition, in the Spiegel podcast "Stimmenfang-Der Politik-Podcast", Prof. Christian Breunig, together with Prof. Stefanie Bailer from the University of Basel, answers questions from minute 25:00 about the diversity…

On the 1st of October, four new professors have started their job at the department. We welcome them all. All four are very renowned scholars and will broaden the department's offer in research and teaching.

In the "Ask a question!" format of the Südkurier newspaper, questions from children are answered by professors from HTWG Konstanz and the University of Konstanz. As part of this format, Prof. Wolfgang Seibel and Prof. Michael Herrmann answered two questions. Prof. Wolfgang Seibel answers the question: "How does one become Federal Chancellor?" and Prof. Michael Herrmann explains the concept of the blocking clause in the German Bundestag in an age-appropriate way. Prof. Seibel's answer can be…

On 27 September 2021, an evaluation of the Bundestag election results from Baden-Württemberg by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel was published on the website of the newspaper "Die Welt". Part of this short evaluation are the three parties CDU, SPD and Greens with the most votes in Baden-Württemberg. The article can be found here.

The television station RTS interviewed Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen in the context of the German federal election and asked him about the forces that play a role in the run-up to this election. You can find the interview here, it takes place at minute 15:18.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Juhi Kulshrestha wins a grant of the "Foundational Integrity Research 2021" of the Facebook Foundation. This research award is given to scholars in the social sciences who have submitted research projects on Fake News and polarisation on social media. The exact description and the other winners of this award can be read on the Facebook Foundation website here.

In his study, Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig examines how women, migrants and workers are represented in the German Bundestag. The exciting study caused reputation in the national as well as in the international media.