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Marius Bug has won the essay competition of Rutgers University in the Occasional Paper Series. The essay "Democracy and Development" is a critical reflection of the academic debate on the importance of democratic institutions for economic development. From the modernisation theory of the post-war period to the discussions of political economy and the critique of the classical concept of development, one of the fundamental questions of development research is thus illuminated. Finally, the case…

Marius Busemeyer was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research Funding Network (FIS Advisory Board) at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). The advisory board supports the ministry in designing the research funding programme of the aforementioned funding network (especially for projects, junior research groups and endowed professorships).

Marius Busemeyer was elected to the Supervisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The…

Prof. Dr. Sven Jochem was interviewed by Deutschland Funk Kultur about the shift to the right in Sweden as part of the program Studio 9. Sven Jochem´s interview in the podcast can be accessed online here.

Prof. Florian Kunze was interviewed by SWR about his home office study as part of the "Geld, Markt, Meinung" podcast. The interview in written form can be read here. The podcast can be found here, at minute 6:22 the interview with Florian Kunze begins.

Constance student Larissa Möckel will give a speech at this year's "Athens Democracy Forum". At the prestigious event, Ms Möckel will be joined by former UN Secretary-General Ba Ki-Moon, EU Commissioner Vera Jourová and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, among others. The framework of the forum and the different speakers can be found here.

Jun.-Prof. Jan Vogler has written a post on the renowned EUROPP blog of the London School of Economics about his research project: "Rivalry and Empire: How Competition among European States Shaped Imperialism". The blogpost can be read online here, the underlying research project can be found here.

Also, Jun.-Prof. Jan Vogler was interviewed by the Institute for Humane Studies as part of a blog post. The interview can be found here.

Prof. Gerald Schneider was interviewed by the Tagesspiegel as part of an analysis of the European Union's seven sanctions packages against Russia. The article can be read online here.

Prof. Busemeyer, along with Julian Garitzmann and Erik Neimanns, won the APSA Education Politics and Policy Section's Best Book Award for their book "A loud but noisy signal?". The award recognizes the best book on education policy and/or education politics published in the last two calendar years. The award description can be read at this website. The winning book can be read here.

Am 12. Juni 2022 verstarb im Alter von 94 Jahren der renommierte Politikwissenschaftler Gerhard Lehmbruch, der lange Jahre als Professor für Materielle Staatstheorie am Fachbereich gelehrt hat. Er hat durch seine Forschung den Fachbereich nachhaltig geprägt. Der Fachbereich wird Gerhard Lehmbruch ein dankbares Andenken bewahren.