Research

The chair has secured many externally funded projects:

SYNCPOL: The Sync-Pol Project analyses the challenges associated with European Policy-Making with regard to how time plays a significant role in the distribution of power in Europe’s multi-level system. Click here for more information about the Project.

Right-Wing extremism and racism – framing and policy making in Bavaria: A new ForGeRex research network (2024-2027). The project analyses policy making in the field of “right-wing extremism and racism” in Bavaria. The aim is to gain insights into the characteristics and functioning of state policy making. The subproject analyses the influence of (1) institutions and actors as well as (2) ideas and discourse patterns – framing – on policy making. Based on this, we identify challenges and potentials in dealing with the topic area by politics and administration. Project managed by Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz and Britta Schellenberg.

The project ‘The People of Munich in Focus,’ supported by the City of Munich and led by Dr. Britta Schellenberg, analyses diversity and discrimination in the urban society and assesses the needs related to personnel and organizational development to further professionalize the city’s own competences and structures in addressing racism and discrimination.

The DFG-funded project: Independent Local Lists between Challenger and Mainstream Actors in Local Politics “analyzes the influence of Independent Local Lists (ILL) on party competition, coalition formation and political representation in German municipalities. While ILL have become important non-partisan actors in local elections, limited knowledge exists with regard to their ideological positions and their elites’ attitudes towards democratic representation”. The project is led by PD Dr. Martin Gross.