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Can intergroup contact improve relations between refugees and host communities? If so, are there added returns to combining contact and empathy education? To answer these questions, we conducted a field experiment that brings together 900 Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in three localities in Lebanon, where refugees make up a quarter of the national population. Working with a Lebanese NGO, we randomly assigned Lebanese and Syrian youth participants to nationally heterogeneous (Lebanese and Syrian) or homogeneous (Lebanese or Syrian) groups for a 12-week psychosocial support program.

OHNE ZIVILGESELLSCHAFT GEHT ES NICHT!

Join us for a panel discussion that brings together practitioners to discuss results from the ARM Project (funded by Horizon Europe) to explore strategies of transnational information manipulation, their impact on democratic societies, and practical ways to counter them. This event is co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Governance and the Berlin Social Science Centre.

Fragen öffentlicher Haushaltsgestaltung werden in politischen wie wissenschaftlichen Debatten häufig unter ökonomischen Gesichtspunkten verhandelt – als Problem verfügbarer Ressourcen, administrativer Möglichkeiten oder makroökonomischer Restriktionen. Der Leviathan-Sonderband „Politische Theorien öffentlicher Finanzen“ rückt demgegenüber die politischen Dimensionen öffentlicher Finanzen in den Vordergrund.

The current US administration is, unlike the populist authoritarian regimes in Central Europe of recent years, not adequately characterized as following a legalist authoritarian or competitive constitutionalist path.

At the 8th Neighborhood Festival at Schöneberg Town Hall, researchers from the WZB will engage with citizens in conversation about social cohesion, civic engagement, and protest, as well as workers’ rights, political conflicts, and democracy. Under the theme “Social Science Meets the Neighborhood,” the researchers will offer insights into their work, present key findings from their research, and answer questions.

Über 55.000 Menschen leben aktuell in Berlin ohne eigenen Wohnraum – sie schlafen in Zelten, auf der Straße, bei Bekannten, in Wohnheimen oder Notunterkünften. Doch was wissen wir eigentlich über ihre gesundheitliche und soziale Lage? Welche Lücken zeigt das Berliner Versorgungssystem – und wie kann Forschung dazu beitragen, Hilfsangebote besser zu gestalten?

Pro-democratic civil society in electoral authoritarian regimes is often confined to urban centers, limiting its ability to build broad-based coalitions. Can paid social media advertisements help overcome this geographic concentration? We examine this through the first large-scale field experiment of social media-based mobilization in an authoritarian context. Partnering with Turkey’s leading election-integrity NGO, we randomly assigned non-metropolitan districts to receive ads recruiting election monitors ahead of the 2023 general election.