Dr. Stephan Jünger found links between living in areas with environmental disadvantages; a person’s income; and whether they or their parents migrated to Germany. Land use disadvantages decrease with higher income. Whereas environmental advantages can be defined as a person’s access to green spaces such as parks, sporting areas, or …
Scientific knowledge about sleep is anything but unequivocal. This ambiguity poses problems and uncertainties for sleep medicine and individuals in their everyday lives. How to examine how knowledge about sleep acquires legitimacy, validity, and ultimately certainty? Technological developments to measure sleep significantly contribute to our social understanding of sleep, such …
ChatGPT is an interesting new tool to support data analysis in the social sciences. It can be used to get suggestions for data analysis methods and for writing code. In this post, I summarize my experience in using ChatGPT to conduct a simple analysis of turnout with the ESS 2018. …
This contribution was originally posted to the CSES Blog on November 10, 2022 The 2022 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship was awarded to Vicente Valentim for his article “Parliamentary Representation and the Normalization of Radical Right Support” in Comparative Political Studies. Democracy is more than just a set of legal rules. …
Are dissociation from shared international institutions and the escalation of inter-state conflicts between involved states causally interrelated? Processes of dissociation – defined as the intentional distancing from the core rules and norms of international institutions – occur rather often and might even become a dominant feature of world politics as …
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ukraine declared its independence together with other Soviet republics. More than 90 percent of the population confirmed the step towards a nation-state in a referendum on 1 December 1991. For many former Soviet citizens, both Russian and Ukrainian, the final collapse of the …