20. April 23 | News

Rebecca Wagner visited the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) in Kingston / Canada

Between 20 March to 20 April 2023, Rebecca Wagner visited the Electoral Integrity Project and Queens University in Canada for a guest research stay. Holly Ann Garnett and Sofia Caal Lam from the Electoral Integrity Project hosted her during the …

19. April 23 | News

IDOS is hiring a Senior Researcher in the field of violent conflict, (post-) conflict settings and state fragility

The Senior Researcher would work on violent conflict, reconstruction in (post-) conflict settings and state fragility. In particular, IDOS seeks a scholar with expertise on international cooperation in and after violent conflict, including different forms of cooperation spanning from crisis …

19. April 23 | News

Solveig Richter appointed to platform “Rebuilding Ukraine”

Solveig Richter, Heisenberg Professor at the University of Leipzig, has been appointed by the German government to the “Rebuilding Ukraine” platform. The aim of the platform is to support the coordination of activities of German-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for the …

11. April 23 | News

Vanessa Boese-Schlosser on WDR Podcast about the dangers of democracy

Vanessa Boese-Schlosser, a postdoctoral researcher at the WZB in Berlin, was live on WDR radio on 4 April for the podcast “Neugier genügt” (in German). In the postcast, she talks about the latest findings on autocratisation and democratisation, why we …

In: Globalizations pp 1-14.

In: Globalizations pp 1-16.

In: International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 3

Cambridge University Press

24. October 22 | Jonas Wolff, Lukas Harth, Florian Kriener

Responding to Foreign Interference in the EU: Beware of Unintended Consequences

The EU’s emerging response to foreign interference, as it is currently debated in the EU Parliament, contains striking similarities to arguments put forth by some governments around the world seeking to justify harsh restrictions on foreign funding and “foreign agents.” …

6. September 22 | Jonas Wolff

The Reconstitution of Liberal Hegemony in Comparative Regime Research: V-Dem’s Discursive Turn from the Contestation to the Decontestation of Democracy

Within just a few years, the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project has experienced a remarkable rise to both academic and political prominence. As Jonas Wolff shows in his paper that was just published open access with Contemporary Politics, this rise has been accompanied by a notable discursive shift: Having started as a project aimed at taking seriously the essential conceptual contestability of democracy, in recent years V-Dem has adopted an increasingly narrow and taken-for-granted focus on liberal democracy.