tag:www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de,2005:/fachbereich-sowi/ueber-den-fachbereich/aktuelle-meldungenAktuelle Meldungen2024-03-27T11:56:27ZNAGR-fakws-23478404-production2024-05-06T22:00:00ZSoWi Absolvent:innenfeier - Anmeldung jetzt möglich bis 07.05.2024<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23478450/party-stachowiak-pixabay-733x414-1cea2528ff84ab25786c7dec340c1e2ad7c7e970.jpg" /><p>Zum erfolgreichen Abschluss des Studiums, lädt der Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften auch in diesem Jahr zur Absolvent:innenfeier ein.<br>Wir freuen uns darauf, mit Ihnen am 07.06.2024 ab 18:30 Uhr auf die vergangenen Jahre zurückzublicken und auf eine erfolgreiche Zukunft anzustoßen.<br>Weiteren Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung bis 07.05.2024 unter https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sowi/studium/absolventinnenfeier.html .</p><p>Foto: Stachowiak/Pixabay</p>NAGR-fakws-23515704-production2024-04-11T15:15:00ZHPS³ - Gefjon Off - Who supports (opposes) gender equality policy, and can different policy framings make a difference?<p>The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.</p>
<p>We welcome on Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 B130</p>
Gefjon Off (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
<p>Title: Who supports (opposes) gender equality policy, and can different policy framings make a difference?<br>(Authors: Amy Alexander, Nicholas Charron & Gefjon Off)<br> <br>Abstract:<br>Who supports gender equality policy, and how does this support depend on the framing of the policy? Different gender equality policies are currently politicized in various democracies. We fielded two vignette experiments across 27 EU countries to test who is most (least) likely to support two hypothetical gender equality policies: Gender quotas in politics, and school reforms for less gender-stereotypical teaching. Applying realistic threat theory to the case of gender equality, we manipulate whether the policies are described as: a) promoting material or symbolic gender equality, and b) benefiting only women/ girls or everyone. Our results show that, first, gender differences in policy support are larger for gender quotas than for school reforms. Second, gender differences in policy support are generally the largest among the young generation, and young men are more deterred by gender quotas than by school reforms. Third, respondents generally prefer gender equality policies with material, rather than symbolic, benefits. Finally, preferences for policies with different beneficiaries (women/ girls vs. everyone/ all students) are age- and policy-specific. Our findings suggest that different gender equality policies yield different patterns of support in the population. The paper carries implications for the application of group threat theory beyond its typical application to immigration, and the study of gender equality attitudes and policy support. </p>
<p> Keywords: gender equality, policy support, survey experiments, young men</p>
<p>The HPS³ seminars take place in person at the UHH. Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.</p>
<p>We invite everyone interested to attend the HPS Seminar Series and are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>NAGR-fakws-22864609-production2024-04-03T22:00:00ZTBA<p><span>Arash Abizadeh </span> (McGill University), 17:15 - 18:45, presents their project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.</p>
<p>Location: Room 0079, Von-Melle-Park 5</p>NAGR-fakws-23515356-production2024-03-31T22:00:00ZUnterstützung Lehre am Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften im SoSe 2024<p>Der Fachbereichsrat Sozialwissenschaften hat in seiner 35. Sitzung am 18.10.2023 beschlossen, aus Fachbereichsmitteln Lehre am Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften zu unterstützen.</p>
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<p>Der Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften unterstützt kreative, innovative Lehre insbesondere durch die finanzielle Förderung von</p>
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<p>2.Gastreferent:innen</p>
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<p>Bitte reichen Sie Ihre formlosen Anträge für das SoSe 2024 bis zum 01.04.2024 per Email in der Geschäftsstelle Sozialwissenschaften (geschaeftsstelle.sozialwissenschaften.wiso@uni-hamburg.de) ein.</p>
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<p>Alle Details entnehmen Sie bitte diesem PDF.</p>NAGR-fakws-23478235-production2024-03-09T23:00:00ZProf. Dr. Volker Lilienthal erneut in den Verwaltungsrat des Deutschlandradios gwählt<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/23478278/lilienthal-volker-10-733x414-cbe2a505621524f7b0fa07088d7576d35df50ca4.jpg" /><p>Als einer von zwei externen Sachverständigen wurde Prof. Dr. Volker Lilienthal (Professur für Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft, insb. Praxis des Qualitätsjournalismus, FB Sozialwissenschaften) einstimmig in den Verwaltungsrat des Deutschlandradios gewählt. Prof. Dr. Lilienthal tritt damit schon seine zweite fünfjährige Amtszeit als Sachverständiger für Rundfunkrecht, Medienwirtschaft oder Medienwissenschaft an. Der Verwaltungsrat des Deutschlandradios besteht aus 12 Mitgliedern, darunter Vertreter von ARD und ZDF, der Bundesländer und des Bundes. Zu seinen Hauptaufgaben gehört, die Tätigkeit des Intendanten zu kontrollieren und über den Haushaltsplan des Senders zu beschließen.</p>
<p> </p><p>Foto: Janne Dierks</p>NAGR-fakws-23191477-production2024-02-14T23:00:00ZTutor:innen für Methodengrundkurse gesucht<p>Tutor:innen für das Sommersemester 2024 gesucht!</p>
<p>Wir suchen für die Methodengrundkurse im kommenden Sommersemester 2024 wieder Studierende, die Spaß daran haben, ihr Wissen an andere weiterzugeben. <br> Alles weitere zur Ausschreibung finden Sie hier...</p>NAGR-fakws-23380184-production2024-02-09T23:00:00Z„Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit" - Team stellt sich vor<p>Am 1.12.2023 hat die DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe „Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit“ die 2. Förderphase gestartet. Das neue Team stellt sich im Newsletter vor.</p>NAGR-fakws-22017499-production2024-01-31T23:00:00ZWeighting Votes<p>Dimitrios Xefteris (University of Cyprus), 17:15 - 18:45, presents their project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.</p>
<p>Location: Room 0079, Von-Melle-Park 5</p>
<p>Abstract</p>
<p>Committees typically decide through voting. One of the challenges of the voting mechanism is to aggregate information when committee members have different quality of information. In such an environment, more complex rules allow voters to better aggregate information by endogenously allocating more decision power to members with better information.</p>
<p>We consider two polar examples of voting rules in terms of complexity: majority voting and continuous voting (CV). Under majority, members can simply vote in favor of the proposal, against it or they can abstain. Due to its coarseness, this system does not allow voters to properly express the quality of their information: it either ignores information of the poorly informed or it attaches the same weight to votes form highly informed. Under CV, instead, voters have incentives to choose the optimal weights that implement the efficient decision for any information structure. However, the desirable properties of CV might be overturned by the cognitive costs to deal with the additional complexity.<br> <br> We compare agents' behavior under the two mechanisms using laboratory experiments, and we also study their preferences over these. We find that CV, despite the higher cognitive costs, does better than majority voting on average and gets higher support, but the difference is lower than theoretically predicted. One of the significant departures from theory is that voters with intermediate information quality attach too much weight on their votes.</p>
<p>Authors: Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University), Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary, London), Antonin Macé (Paris School of Economics), Dimitrios Xefteris (University of Cyprus).</p>
<p>Find the abstract as PDF here.</p>NAGR-fakws-23156890-production2024-01-31T16:15:00ZHPS³ - Sarah Engler -„Affective polarization and the support for anti-pluralist forms of governance. Evidence from Germany”<p>The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.</p>
<p>We welcome on Wednesday, 31st January 2024 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 A316 & via Zoom</p>
Sarah Engler (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
<p>Title: „Affective polarization and the support for anti-pluralist forms of governance. Evidence from Germany” (co-authored with Ivo Bantel and Lucas Leemann)</p>
<p>Abstract: </p>
<p>Concerns about the democratic commitment of populist radical right parties and their supporters and ensuing democratic erosion are fortified by debates about the consequences of affective polarisation in Western democracies. Some scholars assume that disliking supporters of political opponents undermines the perception of other parties and their supporters as legitimate political actors. As a result, citizens are more likely to accept the violation of democratic norms. What is missing, however, is the question how citizens differ in their support for democratic principles when they are affectively more polarised. Specifically, how does support for liberal democracy fare vis-à-vis endorsement of populist notions of democracy or technocratic rule? We expect that citizens with higher affective polarisation are more supportive of non-pluralist view of society and the idea of a “general will”. While we expect this effect for supporters of populist radical right and other parties alike, we stipulate that they diverge in the alternative notion of democracy that they support. While supporters of populist radical right believe in the idea of the will of the people and opt for a more majoritarian form of democracy (populist governance), supporters of the other parties that display strong aversion towards supporters of the radical right are more likely to reject the idea of the popular will and prefer more technocratic forms of governance (technocratic governance). Based on novel survey data from Germany we provide empirical evidence for these expectations but also an unexpected result regarding general support for liberal democracy. </p>
<p>Keywords: Affective polarization, technocracy, direct democracy, liberal democracy, anti-pluralism</p>
<p>The HPS³ seminars take place in person at the UHH and are live-streamed on Zoom.</p>
<p> Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.</p>
<p>We invite everyone interested to attend the HPS Seminar Series and are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>NAGR-fakws-22597478-production2024-01-30T23:00:00ZAus dem Fachbereich: Ringvorlesung zu Ehren von Rudolf Augstein<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22604053/augstein-733x414-9731f5dd4d7b4b40cee23c7c1bbab611f7fa811c.jpg" /><p>Im angelaufenen Wintersemester kommt ein besonderes Angebot aus dem Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften. Eine Ringvorlesung im Rahmen des Allgemeinen Vorlesungswesens erinnert an Rudolf Augstein: Journalist, Verleger und Publizist, Gründer des Nachrichtenmagazins "Der Spiegel", Zeuge und Mitgestalter deutscher Geschichte, Ehrenbürger Hamburgs und Ehrensenator der Universität Hamburg (seit 1988) – am 5. November 2023 wäre er 100 Jahre alt geworden.</p>
<p>Prominente Journalistinnen und Journalisten reflektieren über die Frage, was Augsteins Motto „Sagen, was ist“ für den Journalismus heute und morgen bedeutet. Das ganze Programm finden Sie auf der Website des Zentrums für Weiterbildung. Jeder Abend (immer dienstags 18-20 Uhr in Hörsaal B, ESA 1) wird moderiert von jungen Journalistinnen und Journalisten – allesamt Absolvent:innen des Master-Studiengangs Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg.</p>
<p>Gastgeber der 13-teiligen Ringvorlesung ist Prof. Dr. Volker Lilienthal, Inhaber der Rudolf Augstein Stiftungsprofessur für Praxis des Qualitätsjournalismus und Sprecher des Fachbereichsrates Sozialwissenschaften. Die Rudolf Augstein Stiftung fördert die Veranstaltungsreihe.</p>
<p>Die Universität Hamburg hat auf das Angebot in einer Pressemitteilung aufmerksam gemacht.</p><p>Foto: Der Spiegel</p>NAGR-fakws-23156840-production2024-01-25T16:15:00ZHPS³ - Anja Neundorf - (When) Does Online Civic Education Work: Evidence from a Cross-National Experiment<p>The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.</p>
<p>We welcome on Thursday, 25 January 2024 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 B528 & via Zoom</p>
Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow)
<p>Title: (When) Does Online Civic Education Work: Evidence from a Cross-National Experiment (co-authored with Steven Finkel, Aykut Öztürk, Ericka Rascón Ramírez)</p>
<p>Abstract: </p>
<p>Civic education is an important effort in strengthening the resilience of existing and new democracies. However, little is known about 1) whether these programs can be conducted online (instead of traditionally in-person), 2) what is the best frame to promote democracy, and 3) whether there are contextual differences in the impact of these interventions. Our project aims to answer these questions through online experiments, which were conducted in 34 countries, representing varying levels of democratic and economic development. Around 34,000 respondents were recruited via social media and were randomly shown one of three treatment videos, promoting different aspects of democracy (civic rights, separation of power, provision of economic and public goods) or a placebo treatment. Our results show that the treatments positively affected support for democracy and that the effect can still be detected after two weeks. However, contrary to expectations, the political and economic context of respondents does not condition the impact of our interventions. Our study is the most comprehensive study ever conducted in the field of civic education, allowing us to explore how democracy promotion works in different countries. </p>
<p>The HPS³ seminars take place in person at the UHH and are live-streamed on Zoom.</p>
<p> Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.</p>
<p>We invite everyone interested to attend the HPS Seminar Series and are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>NAGR-fakws-23092946-production2024-01-18T16:15:00ZHPS³ - Anke Hoeffler - Can Aid Reduce Violence<p>The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.</p>
<p>We welcome on Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 A315 & via Zoom</p>
Anke Hoeffler (University of Konstanz)
<p>Title: Can Aid Reduce Violence</p>
<p> Abstract: Although the provision of security to all their citizens is a state’s fundamental duty, over 50 countries experienced armed conflict during the past year. The international development community has identified armed conflict as an impediment to development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide, homicide, and assault, are vastly more prevalent and far more widely distributed across countries than armed conflict. For some time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting self-directed and interpersonal violence higher on domestic and international policy agendas. When analysing the allocation of aid by purpose, it is obvious that donors and recipients have so far neither recognized self-directed nor interpersonal violence as a major development issue. Almost no aid is targeted at suicide prevention and less than one per cent of total official development assistance is targeted at interpersonal violence. </p>
<p>The HPS³ seminars take place in person at the UHH and are live-streamed on Zoom.</p>
<p> Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.</p>
<p> We invite everyone interested to attend the HPS Seminar Series and are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>NAGR-fakws-22017518-production2023-12-20T23:00:00ZMoral Responsibility, AI, and Complex Collectives<p>Maximilian Kiener (TUHH), 17:15 - 18:45, presents their project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.</p>
<p>Location: Room 0079, Von-Melle-Park 5</p>
<p>Abstract</p>
<p>The development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) involves numerous people and complex collectives, consisting of users, computer scientists, engineers, regulators, and more. This situation can lead to a so-called problem of ‘many hands’, where the complexity of collectives and groups, as well as the diffusion of agency, impede the attribution of responsibility. For this and other reasons, scholars argue that the use of AI will lead to responsibility gaps, i.e. situations in which no one is individually or collectively morally responsible for the harm caused by AI, because no one satisfies the conditions of moral responsibility. In this paper, I acknowledge that there is a significant challenge around responsibility and AI. Yet, I don’t think that this challenge is best captured in terms of a responsibility gap. Instead, I argue for the opposite view, namely that there is responsibility abundance, i.e. a situation in which numerous agents (including collectives) are responsible for the harm caused by AI, and that the challenge comes from the difficulties in dealing with such abundance in practice. I conclude by arguing that reframing the challenge in this way offers distinct dialectic, theoretical, and practical advantages, promising to help overcome some obstacles in the current debate surrounding ‘responsibility gaps’. </p>
<p>Find the abstract as PDF here.</p>NAGR-fakws-22985300-production2023-12-18T23:00:00Z300.000 Euro Förderung für ROSI-Projekt<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/uni/22179150/rosi-733x414-531b75e8cee2abe8d64d38827811a6ff5b650a96.jpg" />Das Forschungsbüro für Soziale Innovation (ROSI) der WISO-Fakultät der Universität Hamburg hat eine Förderung in Höhe von 300.000 Euro vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) eingeworben. Damit wird 2024 das Projekt „FlexCity“ gestartet, bei dem unter anderem umgebaute Schiffscontainer auf Marktplätzen deren Attraktivität als Begegnungsorte wieder steigern sollen.<p>Foto: UHH/ROSI</p>NAGR-fakws-22906829-production2023-12-14T16:15:00ZHPS³ - Janina Beiser-McGrath - The role of Pan-African ideology in ethnic power-sharing<p>The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.</p>
<p>We welcome on December 14 2023, 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 B528 & via Zoom</p>
Janina Beiser-McGrath (Royal Holloway, University of London)
<p>Title: The role of Pan-African ideology in ethnic power-sharing (co-authored with Nils Metternich & Sam Erkiletian)</p>
<p> Abstract: What are the conditions under which governments form more ethnically inclusive coalitions? Existing contributions highlight strategic incentives as well as colonial and pre-colonial legacies as determinants of ethnically inclusive government coalitions, but overlook the impact of political mobilization during the decolonization period. We argue that ideological exposure and commitment to the Pan-African anticolonial movement played a vital role in African leaders' decisions to share power with other ethnic communities. We leverage novel data on African government leaders' attendance of decolonization-era Pan-African conferences through a unique collection of conference delegate lists. Accounting for rival mechanisms and country- and year-fixed effects, we find that African political elites attending Pan-African conferences form ethnically more inclusive government coalitions when becoming government leaders. Our findings imply that the ideological influence and commitment signaled by conference attendance affected political leaders' approach to form more inclusive governments and that ethnic coalitions have systematically unexplored legacies in the Pan-African decolonization movements.</p>
<p>The HPS³ seminars take place in person at the UHH and are live-streamed on Zoom.</p>
<p> Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.</p>
<p> We invite everyone interested to attend the HPS Seminar Series and are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>NAGR-fakws-22864499-production2023-12-06T16:15:00ZHPS³ - Jana Birke Belschner - Does female political leadership reduce mortality rates?<p>The Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (HPS³) features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy.</p>
<p>We welcome on December 06 2023, 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 B136 & via Zoom</p>
Jana Birke Belschner (University of Bergen)
<p>Title: Does female political leadership reduce mortality rates? (co-authored with Tor Midtbø)</p>
<p>Abstract: </p>
<p>Studies show that increases in women’s political representation positively affect policies such as public welfare and health spending as well as outcomes like economic growth and violence. Are these effects substantial enough to reduce population mortality? We argue that the impact of women’s representation is most pronounced where gendered differences in political leadership are largest: When women gain executive representation and for female rather than male mortality rates. Using a panel-matching design on data from across the developing world, we confirm that increases in the presence of women at the top executive level and in the cabinet lower overall adult mortality. The effects are modest, but consistent over time. The results also show that women’s representation does not reduce female mortality more than male mortality, suggesting that female political leadership is not particularly “woman-friendly”.</p>
<p>Keywords: gender; mortality; panel matching; political leadership; political representation</p>
<p>The HPS³ seminars take place in person at the UHH and are live-streamed on Zoom.</p>
<p> Please find the preliminary program on the HPS³ Website.</p>
<p> We invite everyone interested to attend the HPS Seminar Series and are looking forward to seeing you.</p>
<p><span> </span></p>NAGR-fakws-22864559-production2023-11-30T23:00:00ZJun. Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski neu in der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakws/22864442/akademie7der-wissenschaften-133-414-b39ac9a088bbed1ad6d81f2951e87f14401bc394.jpg" /><p>Zum Oktober wurde Dr. Nina Perkowski, Juniorprofessorin für Soziologie insbesondere Gewalt- und Sicherheitsforschung, als Young Academy Fellow (YAF) in die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg aufgenommen. Sie gehört damit dem vierten Jahrgang des Hamburger YAF-Programmes an, in dem „herausragende junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler an norddeutschen Universitäten und außeruniversitären Forschungsinstitutionen“ für drei Jahre zusammenkommen. Gegenstand des Programmes ist neben der persönlichen Förderung insbesondere der interdisziplinäre Austausch zu übergreifenden Fragestellungen und deren Bearbeitung in Form von Kolloquien und Publikationen, insbesondere auch mit den ordentlichen Mitgliedern der Akademie. Die feierliche Aufnahme samt Urkundenverleihung erfolgte am 17.11. in Hamburg.</p>
<p>Nach ihrem Studium in Maastricht, Berkeley und Oxford promovierte Nina Perkowski an der University of Edinburgh und arbeitete dann als PostDoc an der University of Warwick, dem Lehrstuhl für Kriminologie, insbesondere Sicherheit und Resilienz an der Universität Hamburg und am IFSH.</p>
<p>Sie forscht dazu, wie Grenzen innerhalb von und um europäische Gesellschaften gezogen, angefochten und verhandelt werden und untersucht das Zusammenspiel von Sicherheit und Gewalt in verschiedenen Kontexten.</p>
<p>Ihre Monographien “Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Security: The Case of Frontex” und “Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis’” (geschrieben mit Vicki Squire, Dallal Stevens und Nick Vaughan-Williams) wurden 2021 veröffentlicht.</p>
<p>Wir gratulieren Jun. Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski zur Aufnahme!</p><p>Foto: Akademie der Wissenschaften Hamburg</p>NAGR-fakws-22017448-production2023-11-29T23:00:00ZSocial Choice and Democracy<p>Jan Sauermann (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), 17:15 - 18:45, presents their project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.</p>
<p>Location: Room 0079, Von-Melle-Park 5</p>
<p>Abstract</p>
<p>Participation of all in the decision-making process is an important element of democracy. However, social choice theory demonstrates that aggregating individual preferences into a collective choice often proves to be difficult. In particular, intransitive collective preference orders pose a fundamental problem in democratic theory because they can lead to the occurrence of cyclic majorities where alternative A beats alternative B, while B beats C and C again beats A. In such a situation, a clear collective choice cannot be determined. Moreover, groups with constant individual preferences may arrive at different results, and policy outcomes can vary significantly over time despite unchanged preferences. Determining a clear voting result is then not possible.</p>
<p>In the literature, there are highly diverse positions on the theoretical and empirical significance of intransitive collective preference orders. William Riker in particular argues that cyclic majorities hinder the determination of a clear collective will. Since the direct observation of individual preferences is impossible, there is no certainty in any decision about whether the preferences of the involved actors establish an equilibrium or lead to an intransitive collective preference order. In addition, collective choices are prone to be manipulated by strategic voting and agenda control. Hence, Riker argues that all democratic decisions are arbitrary and meaningless.</p>
<p>I argue that the pessimistic conclusions of social choice theory with respect to the meaning of democratic decisions can be avoided if we add more structure to individual preferences. If we admit all preferences to collective decisions and thus refrain from making restrictive assumptions about individual motivations in our theoretical models, majority rule might result in arbitrary and meaningless collective decisions. Hence interpretable democratic decisions do not arise from nothing, but presuppose the addition of ‘something normative’ to the preferences of the individuals. I will present a series of experimental studies that suggests that prosocial motivations can be part of these normative elements. Individuals care about others and take the well-being of other individuals into account. Thus, the viability of democracy rests on the existence of a common social bond between the members of a society.</p>
<p>Find the abstract as PDF here.</p>NAGR-fakws-22757233-production2023-11-29T23:00:00ZStudierende Hilfskraft (m/w/d) für das Graduiertenkolleg "Kollektives Entscheiden" gesucht!<p>Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im Graduiertenkolleg „Collective Decision-Making“ <br>Wir sind ein DFG-gefördertes Verbundprojekt der VWL, Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft, das zusammen mit assoziierten Mitgliedern aktuell mehr als 28 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen auf dem Weg zur Promotion begleitet. Die Kombination der Fachgebiete und der Anspruch, in der Ausrichtung wegweisend und innovativ zu sein, macht uns zum attraktiven Partner.</p>
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