Theoretical background and objectives
Theoretical background and objectives
Johannes Gerschewski will present his new book "The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule" that has just been published with Cambridge University Press. The presentation will be followed by comments from Seraphine Maerz (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Michael Bernhard (University of Florida).
On November 13, the evening before being presented with the A.SK Social Science Award at the WZB, the renowned economist Daron Acemoglu will give a specialized talk for his peers and anyone interested in the subject matter:
Theoretical background and objectives
Little is known about whether and how integration policies might influence citizens' views towards immigrants. This relatively unexplored topic compels sociological inquiry, since integration policies represent contextual-level constraints, which might affect individual-level outcomes in a number of ways. Surprisingly, up to this date no one has provided an evidence-based answer to the question whether, to what extent and how national-level arrangements of immigration policies affect citizens' perceptions of immigrants as ethnic threat.
Research design and methodology
After an extraordinary academic career and a six-year term as President of the WZB, Jürgen Kocka is retiring from his Research Professorship „Historical Social Sciences“ at the WZB, which he has held since 2007. In honor of his institutional and intellectual contributions, social scientists from different disciplines discuss the current state of capitalism and its future in the context of the Varieties of Capitalism theory and the current global crisis.
Jutta Allmendinger is currently President of the WZB.
It is widely acknowledged that economies in the 21st century are heavily dependent upon knowledge. In this context, the university does not only play a critical role in the performance of any advanced society in the OECD world, but it has also played that role in expanding the stock of useful knowledge for a long time.