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Samuel Brielmaier, our graduate of the MA in Political and Administrative Science, was awarded the Dietrich H. Boesken Prize for the best MA thesis at the University of Konstanz in 2022. Mr. Brielmaier received the honor for his thesis on "Unequal Representation? A Meta-Analysis on Discrimination by Elected Officials against Disadvantaged Groups". The prize is endowed with 5000 €.

In times of rising day-care fees, Prof. Marius Busemeyer asks himself whether they are socially unjust. In his column Busemeyers Blickwinkel in the local magazine karla, he points out that the answer is more complex than assumed. You can find the complete article in German here.

Prof. Florian Kunze was interviewed by SWR Aktuell about the influences of home office on job selection. You can find the complete interview in German here.

In an interview with the journal Welternährung, Prof. Anke Hoeffler discusses the causes and consequences of collective and individual violence, why the UN has not included targets for collective violence in its new development goals, and how development cooperation should increasingly promote initiatives to reduce violence. The full interview in German is available here.

Prof. Gerald Schneider was interviewed by Südkurier as part of a comparison between Germany and Switzerland on the different civil liberties and the exercise of democracy in the two countries. The article can be read in German online here.

Niklas Hänze, our graduate student in the M.A. Political Science and Public Administration, is the recipient of the Christiane-Rajewsky Award from the Association for Peace and Conflict Studies for his outstanding master's thesis. Mr. Hänze received the award for his thesis, "Reversing the Causal Arrow: The Nexus Between Armed Conflict and Natural Disasters," in which he used quantitative methods to investigate the extent to which violent conflict contributes to the occurrence of natural…

On 04.03.2023 Prof. Eva Thomann spoke in the 12th episode of the podcast "Durchblick, der Podcast gegen Korruption" of Transparency International Germany about the topic "Corruption risks in measures to cope with the corona crisis".

The report explains how the new study by Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Koos, along with Pascal Mounchid and Max Heermann, explores the motivations for citizens to advocate for equitable distribution of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic.

A new study by Adrian Rinscheid and Marius Busemeyer shows that the commuter allowance is unsocial and harmful to the environment. But the knowledge about it is very small in the population. Every fourth person considers the commuter allowance to be social, reports the newspaper "Die Zeit" in an article about the study. Public information could change the debate about it and strengthen climate protection, the authors state in their study.