Archive Events in 2020

Moderated by Michael Zürn

Erloschene Liebe, einseitige Kampagnen, endlose Diskussionen über harten und weichen Brexit, extrem schwierige Vertragsverhandlungen, die nach wie vor andauern – der Weg Großbritanniens aus der Europäischen Union ist lang. Ende 2020 schließlich verlässt das Land nach 47 Jahren die EU. Ein harter Schnitt: für die Menschen in der EU und in Großbritannien, für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Langjährige Beziehungen werden gekappt oder verändern sich.

Chairs: Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University, and Daniel Ziblatt, WZB
 

This seminar series explores the past, present, and future of democracy – its institutions and norms – and some chronic dilemmas in the practice of democracy. It convenes important thinkers in Europe and North America to explore what makes democracies work and the challenges they currently face. The series will also serve as a forum for discussion of work in progress and forthcoming books and papers contributing to debates on democracy.

Moderated by Jan Paul Heisig
Discussant: Michaela Kreyenfeld

Berlin als internationale Wissenschaftsmetropole zu stärken, ist Ziel einer gemeinsamen Initiative der außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen der Hauptstadt. Sie haben sich Anfang des Jahres zur BR50 (Berlin Research 50) zusammengeschlossen.

Die Krise als Chance – Forscher*innen diskutieren über Risiken und Chancen neuer Arbeitsweisen in der Wissenschaft. Eine Panel-Debatte mit Publikumsbeteiligung im Rahmen der Berlin Science Week.

Introduction by Mira Fischer
Moderated by Steffen Huck

Co-authors: Isabell Schierenbeck, Ellen Lust, Kevin Köhler

The replication crisis is typically discussed in the context of particular silly claims, or in terms of the sociology of science, or with regard to controversies in statistical practice. Here we discuss the content of unreplicated or otherwise shaky empirical claims in social science, which often seem to be associated with a model in which important attitudes and behavior can be easily manipulated using irrelevant stimuli.

This lecture briefly characterizes the core of President Trump's approach to politics; places him into the broader historical context of American ethnonationalism and conservatism; and discuss the contemporary politics of white identity. In the fall of 2020 America finds itself in a profound constitutional crisis that resonates, disconcertingly, with the year 1932 and its different American and German outcomes. History does not repeat itself. But does it rhyme?

Please note that this event takes place in English only with no translation.

Please note that this event takes place in English only with no translation.

The event is part of the WZB Talks series.

Thomas Palfrey is Research Professor of the WZB Research ProfessorshipCollective Decision Making.

Please note that this event takes place in English only with no translation.

The event is part of the WZB Talks series.

Jelena Cupać and İrem Ebetürk are Research Fellows of the WZB Research Unit Global Governance.

With the implementation of predictive policing, the police in Germany have entered the algorithmic age. The associated hype led to a sensitization of political and police decision-makers for the (propagated) potential of big data analyses. As a result, numerous projects and programs have been recently set up to promote a general datafication of policing, such as the infrastructure program ‘Police 2020’ or the introduction of data analysis platforms à la Palantir ‘Gotham’ (e.g., ‘hessenDATA‘).

Andrew Schotter is professor at the Department of Economics, New York University.

While recent developments have impacted the future of the anti-extraction bill movement in Hong Kong, we would like to review what happened in the last year and discuss the more recent actions of the movement. The upcoming webseminar features two scholars from Hong Kong: Samson Yuen, Assistant Professor at the Lingnan University, and Anna Tsui, Research Assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Please note that this event takes place in English only with no translation.

The event is part of the WZB Talks series.

The Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB and the Center for Political Sociology of Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin have organized this workshop on electoral and non-electoral polarization to take place on June 25th and June 26th 2020.

The event will take place via ZOOM.

by Leonard Wantchekon

by Yiming Liu and Jana Friedrichsen

The Working Group on African Political Economy (WGAPE), founded in 2002, is a network of researchers with deep field research experience that meets regularly to provide structured feedback on in-progress research papers related to the theme of African political economy. It brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in economics, political science, and other social science disciplines, with a combined focus on field-based research and political economy methods.

Digitales Kolloquium

Welchen Einfluss hat die Corona-Krise auf unseren gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt? Welche Folgen lassen sich schon jetzt abschätzen für Bildung und Bildungsungleichheit, Digitalisierung, Familie, Gesundheit, Mortalität, Pflege, Solidarität, Sozialpolitik und sozialwissenschaftliche Datenerhebung?

Im Rahmen eines digitalen Kolloquiums wollen wir den soziologischen Perspektiven auf die Corona-Krise eine Plattform geben und zum Austausch anregen. Die Vorträge finden auf Zoom statt.

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Linsey McGoey, University of Essex

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Symposium

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Johan P. Mackenbach, University Medical Center Rotterdam

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Workshop and Discussion of the book by Alec D. Walen in the presence of the author

Joint work with Anne-Marie Jeannet, Esther Ademmer, and Martin Ruhs

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Wie verändern sich Mobilitätsgewohnheiten? Entstehen neue Bedürfnisse? Welche Bedeutung kommt dabei den Angeboten der Shared Mobility zu? Diese Fragen zu beantworten, gestaltet sich zunehmend schwierig, denn das Mobilitätsverhalten wird komplexer. Welche Verkehrsmittel auf einem Weg oder an einem Tag genutzt werden und wie sich die Nutzungsmuster über die Zeit verändern, kann mit einfachen Befragungen kaum noch erfasst werden.

Latin America has seen the rise of social movements and conflicts in the streets in the last year. The continent is in turmoil. In his talk, Federico Rossi will draw on extensive research about the unemployed workers movement (the piqueteros) in Argentina as well as on related mobilizations across Latin America to shed light on these emerging dynamics. The piquetero movement has been the largest movement of unemployed people in the world and transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade.

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Panu Poutvaara

In großen Teilen der Welt ist Demokratie inzwischen zur Norm geworden. Genau umgekehrt sieht es in der islamischen Welt aus: 53 Prozent der Länder sind autoritär regiert, nur vier Prozent demokratisch. Immer mehr Muslime fliehen vor Diktatur und Unfreiheit, Terror und Krieg, Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit.

The lecture will take stock of the transformation of policy elites and intermediary organizations in contemporary politics. Myriad new spaces of policy, governance, and influencing have opened up over the past several decades, and ever-more intermediary entities and players have arisen to fill them. These intermediaries, increasingly novel entities and players that defy classification, have reorganized relations with states in a remade ecosystem characterized by more porous and blurred boundaries.

Based on a book coauthored with Chris Howell (“Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation”, Cambridge University Press, 2017), this presentation will document the liberalization that has characterized industrial relations since the late 1970s. The presentation will combine quantitative evidence for 15 OECD countries with in-depth case studies of Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and the UK. In the presentation, particular attention will be devoted to the German case.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008/09, international cooperation has failed to curb volatile financial markets. Changes in the global rules of finance discussed in the G20 during the last decade remain limited, and it is uncertain whether they are suitable to help mitigate and manage future crises to come. Thomas Kalinowski argues that this failure is not the result of the ‘nature’ of the international system, the clash of national egoisms, or a lack of leadership.