Survey data are the most widely used type of data in the quantitative social sciences. They have been used to investigate a huge range of societally relevant topics. However, they also have specific limitations. An effective way of addressing those is linking survey data with other types of data, such …
The governing form known as democracy translates literally as ‘the rule of the people.’ It has existed in its earliest form for over 2,500 years. In Western countries, it is now generally uncontroversial that democracy is the most advanced and best form of government – this is traditionally celebrated on …
The German Federal Election of 2021 will be the most digitalized ever: In times of Covid-19, a younger electorate and omnipresence of user generated content, social media has become an important tool and arena for politics. While collecting data from Twitter’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is simple, it is difficult …
Copyright and Open Science are two poles in science that seem to be diametrically opposed to each other. But only seemingly: because we show an uncomplicated way to protect one’s own intellectual property from misuse on the one hand, and still make one’s own research work freely usable for others. …
Eine frühere Version des Beitrags wurde am 7. Juni 2021 unter dem Titel „How German health workers’ views on vaccine safety can be swayed by the AstraZeneca controversy” im LSE COVID-19 Blog der London School of Economics auf Englisch publiziert. An earlier version of this post was published in English …
The outbreak of the COVID-19-pandemic in spring 2020 put solidarity within the European Union to the test and called for far-reaching responses by all member states to mitigate the pandemic’s effects. But how does this crisis affect public support for transnational solidarity in the European Union? Are EU citizens willing …