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Prof. Dr. Marius Busemeyer was interviewed by Deutsche Welle on the social consequences of the Corona Pandemic. He reports about the increasing inequality and the possible consequences for democracy.

Der Spiegel released an article on Peter Selb's study on the Corona app recently published in Nautre Human Behaviour. In particular, the Spiegel article addresses the study's findings regarding an increase in download numbers through financial incentives.

Porf. Dr. Gerald Schneider has published a new blogpost on the portal FluchtforschungsBlog of the Netzwerk Fluchtforschung. In his blogpost, he criticizes the defensive information policy of the BAMF and calls for more openness towards evidence-based asylum politics.

An article by Peter Selb on the use of the Covid-19 tracing app in Germany was published in the renowned Nature Human Behaviour Journal. The study uses survey and tracking data to investigate how and by which population groups the Corona app is used.

An interview with apl. Prof. Dr. Sven Jochem on the current Covid-19 situation in Sweden and the failure of the Swedish Corona-strategy has been published in Die Welt. Jochem explicitly discusses the recently passed pandemic law.

The recently conducted study by Jun. Prof. Sebastian Koos on the composition and dynamics of the "Querdenken"-Movement is discussed in the media and in politics throughout Germany.

On June 18 and 19, 2020, the online conference "Fünf Jahre nach dem Sommer der Willkommenskultur. Umkämpfte Solidaritäten, fragile Teilhabe und transformative Potentiale zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements" of the "Welcome Democracy" cooperative project of the Universities of Kassel, Osnabrück and Tübingen took place. Within the framework of the HybOrg project, the chair of politics and public administration of the University of Konstanz and the Center for Security Studies of the ETH Zurich…

In Thomas Malang, the department has another Emmy Noether group leader. The political scientist can draw on around 1.1 million euros for his research, which the Emmy Noether Programme will make available to him for the next six years. This will finance a junior research group he chairs under the title "The Foreign Relations of National Legislators. Structures, Explanations, Effects", which also includes two doctoral students. The central topic of the group is the role of national parliaments in…

The worldwide study "Life with Corona" under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler examines the global behaviour in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. A first interim report received great international attention and was the subject of several media reports. The study is now going into the next round and is again looking for numerous survey participants.