Research

Two working hypotheses, the conflict-escalation and the conflict-abatement hypothesis, specify which types of responses to the novel societal conflicts lead to which type of big structural change. The seven individual subprojects of BISC are structured along these two hypotheses and three major drivers of change, viz. climate change, globalization and technological change, and mass migration. In all subprojects, the research unit empirically investigates the causal mechanisms of big structural change, applying various methods from the continuum of causal inference methods, predominantly theory-based laboratory and survey experiments.

Click on the titles in the list on the right to find out more about the individual subprojects.