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![]() | Center for the Study of Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy, Leipzig University researches on the effects of social crises and transformations on society members using qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical social research. One of his focus areas are “Mitte” surveys – carried out at Leipzig University since 2002 – which explore political attitudes in Germany. He is the spokesman of the Center for the Study of Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy (KReDo). |
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![]() | Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism, Dresden focuses on right-wing extremism, xenophobia, and political culture in Germany and has written extensively on these issues. He cofounded the Working Group for Comparative Dictatorship and Extremism Research at the German Political Science Association (DVPW) and was its spokesman between 2003 and 2012. Currently, Kailitz is one of the four expert witnesses appointed by the Federal Constitutional Court in the NPD ban proceedings. |
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![]() | Faculty of Theology, Leipzig University Gert Pickel’s research is centered on the areas of political culture and sociology of religion. He has published on islamophobia and perception of out-groups. As evidenced by respective textbooks, Pickel has extensive expertise in the empirical attitude research and social research methods in political science. He is the board member of the Center for the Study of Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy. |
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![]() | Professorship in Methods of Empirical Social Research, Marburg University researches on integration of migrants and minorities in European societies, with particular interest in the interplay of individual factors on the one hand and group- and country-specific contexts on the other. She has published extensively on socio-cultural integration of migrants, specifically on attitudes regarding gender roles and homosexuality and the effects of discrimination. International comparisons based on secondary data sets and data collection among mobile and hard-to-reach populations are at the center of her research. |
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![]() | Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas, TU Dresden has done intensive research on flight and migration from a political theory perspective. In 2014, she habilitated with a work "Political Theory of a Refugee. On a Border Subject". Following her habilitation, she has conducted further research dealing with the refugee figure as a border subject. Her current research focuses on refugees as political actors that challenge the democratic order on different levels. |
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FURTHER MEMBERS
![]() | Junior Professorship in Social Psychology, TU Chemnitz |
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![]() | deputy director at Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism, Dresden // apl. Prof. at the Institute for Political Science, TU Dresden researches on extremism and politically motivated violence in Germany and Europe from a comparative perspective. Recently, he has conducted a research project on right-wing motivated multiple offenders in Saxony. He is the co-editor of the Yearbook Extremism and Democracy and the same-titled publication series at Nomos, Baden-Baden. |
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![]() | Dr. phil. Anne-Coralie Bonnaire
Associate member of staff (ESF-sponsored project „Academic Integration“),
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![]() | Department of Psychology, Leipzig University
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![]() | Professorship Political Theory and the History of Ideas, TU Chemnitz
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![]() | Research Associate, Chair for Central and Eastern European Studies, TU Chemnitz
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![]() | Jun.-Prof. Dr. habil. Tom Mannewitz
Junior Professorship in Political Science Research Methods, TU Chemnitz
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![]() | Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden
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![]() | Professorship social policy education, College of the Saxonian Police (FH)
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![]() | Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Leipzig University
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