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When the American constitution was written, it was world-changing in a republican sense. But nonetheless the origin of the American constitution is pre-democratic, as WZB director Daniel Ziblatt explains in an interview for the audio edition of the WZB Mitteilungen.
 

It's not always women who lose out when looking for a job. Men experience disadvantages in hiring processes for female dominated occupations, a recent study finds.

 

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Tuesday, 25 January 2022
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WZB Talk by Pippa Norris - Online Event
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The concept of trustworthiness can be understood to involve an informal social contract where principals authorize others to act on their behalf in the expectation that the agent will fulfill their responsibilities, despite conditions of risk and uncertainty. When evaluating the trustworthiness of political institutions, public judgments are expected to reflect the quality of government procedures, especially the principles of competency, impartiality and integrity.

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Start: 2:00 pm

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Friederike Theilen-Kosch
friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
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Kolloquiumsreihe „Wunsch und Wirklichkeit deutscher Bildungspolitik – Steuerung auf dem Prüfstand“
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Um die Digitalisierung ihrer Schullandschaften voranzutreiben, sind Kommunen auf verlässliche Ressourcen für eine IT-Ausstattung und deren Administration, regelmäßige Schulungen ihrer Lehrkräfte und auch die bauliche Gestaltung einer geeigneten Lernumgebung angewiesen. Doch vor welchen Herausforderungen und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten stehen dabei Kommunen und wie kann die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Akteure auf kommunaler Ebene gestaltet werden? Diese Fragen werden sowohl im Vortrag als auch anhand von Praxisbeispielen erläutert.

Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Start: 5:00 pm

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Johanna Behr
johannamarie.behr [at] wzb.eu
Inklusion geht in Rheinland-Pfalz auf Kosten der sozialen Integration, zeigt eine Studie
Tuesday, 1 March 2022
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WZB Talk by Simone Dietrich - Online Event
Description

Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while others bypass local authorities under similar recipient country and international economic conditions? Weaving together scholarship in political economy, public administration, and historical institutionalism, States, Markets, and Foreign Aid establishes connections between ideological orientations of donor governments and patterns of donor behaviour.

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Start: 2:00 pm

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Friederike Theilen-Kosch
friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu
Former Visiting Researcher of the Research Department