Im jüngsten CHE Ranking erreicht die Mainzer Politikwissenschaft jeweils sehr gute Werte bei den beiden Hauptkriterien "Allgemeine Studiensituation" und "Studienorganisation". Wir danken den Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem Studienbüro und der Studienberatung, die dies jeden Tag möglich machen!
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Spitzenplätze für die Mainzer Politikwissenschaft im CHE-Ranking
Professor Dr. Michael Becker verstorben
Mit Bestürzung haben wir erfahren, dass unser Würzburger Kollege Prof. Dr. Michael Becker überraschend verstorben ist.
Michael Becker hat 1991 an unserem Institut mit einer Arbeit zu Jürgen Habermas und Ronald Dworkin promoviert und war bis 1994 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Innenpolitik und Politische Soziologie. Auch danach blieb er unserem Institut und vielen Kolleginnen und Kollegen verbunden.
Unsere Gedanken sind bei seiner Familie und seinen Angehörigen.
Late Lunch Lecture am 08.05.2024 um 14 Uhr mit Prof. Arzheimer
Gastvortrag "Dichotomous politics: Partisanship, affective polarisation and populism"
Am 15.05., 10-12 Uhr, Raum 02-601 ist Professor Dr. Steven van Hauwaert (Forward College, Paris) zu Gast im Kolloquium der Abteilung Innenpolitik und Politische Soziologie. Professor van Hauwaert arbeitet vor allem zu Themen im Bereich Populismus und Einstellungen zur Demokratie. Um beides wird es auch in seinem Vortrag gehen. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen!
Abstract
Populism is one of the more persistent challenges to democracy. From polity-level research, we know that the simplification, or dichotomisation, of politics can bolster populism. The question remains to what extent this is also true on the individual-level. We argue two important dynamics have been neglected when examining
populist support, namely partisanship and (affective) polarisation. Like populism, both dynamics view politics in a dichotomous and simplistic manner. This study posits that such an interpretation of political life is beneficial for populists. We rely on an original 2019 survey fielded in 10 West European countries to examine how dichotomised views of politics feed into populist support. We find that populist attitudes, positive partisanship and affective polarisation stimulate populism, whereas negative partisanship curtails it. At the same time, the relationship between affective polarisation and populist support is also more conditional on other party characteristics, like ideology, but not others, like governmental status.
Dies war der Master – Projekttag am 19.04.2024
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Programm Late Lunch Lecture SoSe 2024
Einladung zum Master Projekttag am Fr. 19.04.2024, 14 Uhr
Einladung zum Gastvortrag: Keeping Workers Off the Ballot: How Electoral Democracy Undermines Working-Class Representation
Am 24.04., 18 Uhr s.t. im Raum GFG 01-721 ist Professor Dr. Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt) zu Gast im Institutskolloquium. Alle Institutsmitglieder (und insbesondere auch die Studierenden) sind herzlich eingeladen! Es geht um die nachteiligen Folgen der Unterrepräsentation von Arbeitenden für die Demokratie.
Bio: Noam Lupu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, the Associate Director of the LAPOP Lab, and also a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His research interests include comparative political behaviour, political parties and partisanship, congruence and representation, legacies of political violence, and class and inequality.
Abstract: In most democracies, politicians are economically better off than the citizens they
represent: they are wealthier and more educated, and almost none of them come from
the working-class occupations that make up majorities of most labor forces. These
inequalities in the makeup of government in turn appear to have significant
consequences for economic policy. But no one really knows why so few working-class
people go on to hold public office in electoral democracies around the world. We
argue that electoral democracy itself has unique, built-in biases that discourage
working-class people from going on to hold office. We draw on dozens of original
surveys in the Americas; interviews with party leaders in Africa, Latin America, and
Scandinavia; and the first-ever global database of information on the occupational
backgrounds of national legislators in the world's democracies. With these data, we
argue that standing for elected office in any democracy is a burden that requires a
person to give up precious resources: time, energy, and certainty about the future.
As a result, relatively resource-poor social groups, like the working class, are
simply less likely to be able to run or to win office. These burdens also make
working-class people less appealing to the party leaders and other institutional
gatekeepers who could, in principle, help working-class people get into office. The
conditions necessary for workers to hold office in large numbers are truly
extraordinary: in rare cases, parties, interest groups, and labor unions have
strategic or ideological reasons to target and subsidize working-class candidate
entry, but outside of these unusual political moments, working-class representation
is typically low or close to zero in democracies. Scholars and practitioners often
think of descriptive representation as fluid, or that it might even exhibit positive
feedback, but we argue that the basic operation of electoral democracy builds in
disadvantages for working-class representation.
Akademische Abschlussfeier
Das Institut für Politikwissenschaft veranstaltet jedes Jahr, mit Unterstützung der Freunde der Mainzer Politikwissenschaft e.V., am Ende des Sommersemesters eine Akademische Abschlussfeier für alle Studierende, die im Akademischen Jahr (01.07.2024 - 30.06.2025) ihr Studium erfolgreich abgeschlossen haben.(Abschlussarbeit im Fach Politikwissenschaft /Sozialkunde erforderlich)
Bitte vormerken - nächster Termin: Fr. 18.07.2025, von 17 bis ca. 19 Uhr in der Alten Mensa
Sie erhalten von uns eine Einladung bis 30. Juni 2025 - sollte dies nicht der Fall sein,
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Kontakt zum Organisationsteam bitte per Email an: akademische-abschlussfeier@politik.uni-mainz.de