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_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_06 - Local Protests and Cohesion in a European Comparison
06/2024 – 05/2029
Protests are a form of political participation that has increasingly become part of everyday political life in Western democratic societies. They can function both as expressions of voice — and thus as signs of lived democracy—and as exit -reactions in the sense of a withdrawal from…
» View detailsA_08 - Democratic Participation in the World of Work Between Compromise and Conflict
06/2024 – 05/2029
The work package (WP), in cooperation with and complementary to A_06 and A_07, examines the contribution of different forms of civil society participation between voice, exit, and loyalty to democratic cohesion. In doing so, it focuses on collective labor relations as a central pillar of…
» 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 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…
» View detailsD_04 - Youth as a Generation of Crisis? Socialization in Conflict and Transformation
06/2024-05/2029
This work package (WP) develops both a foundational and a knowledge-transfer-oriented profile for the relationship between youth and social cohesion. Within Priority Area 2, it identifies key socialization dynamics in the youth-cultural production and reproduction of social cohesion. It…
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