Fields of research

The Chair of Political Systems and Comparative Politics has been and is involved in a large number of research projects in which it devotes itself to a wide range of topics:

• Democracy and autocracy. Internal and external aspects of democratization, quality and stability of democracies, autocratization, autocracy promotion and diffusion
• Digital politics. Digital processes and their interplay in democracies and autocracies. E-democracy and e-participation, social media communication
• Solidarity. Solidarity in crisis situations, solidarity in the migration crisis and in the corona pandemic
• Municipal processes and conflicts. Conflict management through the means of citizen dialoguesEast German peculiarities, transformation processes such as migration, corona pandemic, climate change