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_03 - Polarization and Political Legitimacy
06/2024 – 05/2029
By addressing the relationship between polarization and political legitimacy, this work package (WP) subjects the widespread thesis that tendencies toward polarization inevitably endanger the legitimacy of political institutions to critical scrutiny. Its aim is to specify more precisely…
» View detailsA_07 - Ecological Transformation and Anti-Democratic Crisis Mobilization
06/2024 – 05/2029
Work package A_07 examines positions and practices that delay, prevent, or reverse climate protection measures. Of particular interest are settings in which collective practices of “resistance” to transformative measures take shape. Political majorities opposed to climate policy emerge…
» View detailsA_09 - Politicized Gender Issues Between Voting Behavior and Online Communication
06/2024 – 05/2029
The work package (WP) investigates processes of politicization and polarization surrounding gender issues on three levels: individual attitudes, social media discourses, and party positions. It examines whether divergent political attitudes give rise to societal conflicts and polarization…
» View detailsA_10 - Social Cohesion in Times of War: The Effects of Military Conflicts on Politicization and Polarization
Research Area A analyzes the relationship between politics and social cohesion, with a particular emphasis on the conflictual dimension of political negotiations. Violent conflicts constitute a particularly relevant field in this regard, as they directly affect people’s sense of security…
» View detailsA_11 - Polarization Dynamics on Social Media
06/2024 – 05/2029
This work package (WP) examines current dynamics of politicization and polarization on social media, their emergence, and their effects. It is based on the observation that digital media in particular function as opportunity structures for politically extreme actors and, due to their…
» View detailsB_01 - Milieu Conflicts and Social Cohesion
06/2024 – 05/2029
Within the context of the first research focus of Research Area B, this work package (WP) examines the effects of socioeconomic and cultural divisions on social cohesion using the concept of social milieus. It subjects the hypothesis of a “drifting apart of society” to a systematic…
» View detailsB_09 - Intergroup Conflicts and Symbolic Boundary-Drawing Practices in Digital Social Networks
This work package (WP) builds on research on so-called “perceived polarization” and on the implicit assumption that diagnoses of societal division must always be understood as mediated by communication and perception. Unlike survey-based studies and group discussions on perceived…
» View detailsD_06 - Transformation of the Societal Order of Deliberation
06/2024 – 05/2029
The aim of this work package (WP) is to contribute theoretical and conceptual groundwork that helps address the guiding questions of Research Area D concerning the foundations and conditions of societal debates over knowledge, values, and identities. Using the concept of a “deliberative…
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