Here you can find an overview of the 39 work packages being addressed in the current funding period of RISC (2024 – 2029).
For an overview of the 109 research projects that were implemented during the first funding period (2020 – 2024), please refer to our German website.
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A_02 - Trust in Democracy, Populism, and Voting Behavior in Times of Transformation
06/2024-05/2029
The aim of this work package (WP) is to determine, through analytical and empirical methods, the effects of social cohesion on trust in the institutions of a pluralistic and liberal democracy under conditions of crisis. Of particular interest is the question of how the effects of…
» View detailsA_04 - Policies of Social Cohesion in Africa: Entangled Governance in Post-Trauma Societies and the Role of International Organizations
06/2024 – 05/2029
As part of the focus area on cohesion policies and the conditions of political legitimacy, this work package (WP) empirically examines top-down and bottom-up governance strategies and practices for producing social cohesion in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and South Africa. In all three countries,…
» View detailsA_05 - Social Cohesion in China – Traditions and New Challenges
The Communist Party of China (CPC) claims that one of its greatest achievements lies in securing social cohesion within the Chinese nation of 1.4 billion people. Not infrequently, the concept of democracy is invoked in the same breath, even though, from an external perspective and…
» View detailsD_01 - Culture Wars and Criticism of Moralism: Struggles over Values and Identities
06/2024 – 05/2029
This work package (WP) examines meaning structures and historical developments of conflicts over values, identities, and knowledge regimes in Germany and the transatlantic context, focusing on culture wars surrounding morality and the struggle against discrimination and oppression. It…
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