Studentlitteratur Abstract Under senare år har det lokala brottsförebyggande arbetet oftast kopplats samman med breda trygghetsfrågor och hanterats inom olika partnerskap mellan organisationer som Polis

Voting behavior, policy responsiveness and democratic anger. Interview with Armin Schäfer

European citizens with low socio-economic status are staying away from the polls in disproportionate numbers. Some of them say it is because politicians don't care about them anyway. Are they right? P

How policy creates politics. Policy feedback in contemporary democracies

Why do political actors find it increasingly difficult to design effective policies and address pressing social problems. This project tries to find the answer in changes of the policy feedback mechanisms by using longitudinal datasets from 30 countries.

Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Institut Für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück ABSTRACTAs turnout has declined in many developed democracies, it has also become more unequal. Recent studies show tha

Postponed. New date pending. James Fishkin, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University. Abstract D

The research network World Values Survey has explored people's values since the 1980s in six waves of interviews in a total of 100 countries. The latest survey was completed in 2014 and the result has