Perspectives 1/2019: Robbin’ the Hood: Inquiries into State Capture

Perspectives 1/2019: Robbin’ the Hood:

Published: 10 February 2020
This edition of Perspectives tackles questions of state capture, and how the concept can contribute to understanding and strengthening democracies across Africa. Our contributors also open the possibilities that emerge when “state capture” is released from particular institutional settings and national boundaries.

Political integration of Hungarian students, 2019

Published: 10 June 2019
After a four-year absence, the Active Youth (Aktív Fiatalok) Research Group has returned with a new survey about the political attitudes of higher education students in Hungary. The significance of this year’s findings relies on the fact that the political views of the majority of students sampled in this most recent survey – including some born as recently as 2000 – were formed during consecutive terms of prime minister Viktor Orbán and his government, considered by many political scientists and commentators to be a hybrid regime.
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Plastic Atlas

Published: 21 October 2019
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The Plastic Atlas provides facts and figures about the world of synthetic polymers.  ➢ Download or order now!
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Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet

Published: 31 May 2019
The plastic pollution crisis is a significant and growing threat to the Earth’s climate. Greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic lifecycle threaten the ability of the global community to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C.

The European Election in Germany

Published: 20 May 2019
e-paper
This E-Paper analyse the results of the European Election in Germany and the specific impacts on national politics and the competition between the parties in Germany.
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Annual Report 2018

Published: 5 August 2019
Annual Report
In 2018, our priorities included climate justice, energy and mobility transitions, responsible resource policies, the strengthening of democracy and human rights, and the protection of minorities. Our Annual Report provides information on our multifaceted work in Germany and abroad.

Agriculture Atlas 2019

Published: 10 May 2019
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Facts and Figures on EU Farming Policy: No other economic activity is so closely interwoven with the human and natural environment as is agriculture. If farming changes, so too the ecological and social systems that it hosts must change. The Agriculture Atlas shows how closely Europe’s agriculture is intertwined with our lives and our living space and pushes for a better, fundamentally different set of agricultural policies.

Free, fair, and alive: the insurgent power of the commons

Published: 6 September 2019
Book
Ambitious, sophisticated, and resolutely grounded in everyday realities, "Free, Fair and Alive" present a compelling vision of a future that can actually work. Written by two highly experienced commons activists, this book is at once a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for building a new world of commoning.

From «Paymaster of Europe» to «Shaper of Europeʼs future»

Published: 21 May 2019
E-Paper
Although the European Union is facing enormous political challenges, Germany has shown little initiative in European politics in recent years. Proposed reforms of other member states, such as France, have been mostly opposed on the grounds that «the German taxpayers» must not be even further burdened. This study investigates the factual and popular basis of this narrative.