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Indifference to refugees in Germany: observations and explanations

January 25, 2024 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Interviews with refugees, Social Criticism No Comment 8 Views

Since 2022, Social Science Works has published a large number of interviews with refugees in Germany. There were several motives for conducting these interviews. By learning more about the newcomers’ backgrounds, we hopedRead More

Social media are useless for civic and political participation: experiences with a pr

September 29, 2023 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Project reports, Social Criticism No Comment 7 Views

The political participation of young people in general and rural youth in particular is not optimal. Consequently, they are underrepresented in politics, which in turn affects the extent to which their interests areRead More

Resisting democratic decline: deliberation and some lessons from Germany and beyond

May 11, 2023 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory No Comment 6 Views

Democracies around the world seem to lose appeal for growing numbers of citizens. Partly explaining this trend, citizens seem less and less able to steer, on the basis of substantial rational considerations, theRead More

Politics is no Match for Business: Charles Lindblom, Elon Musk and the Privileged Pos

April 13, 2022 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory No Comment 10 Views

The interplay between Elon Musk and the social democratic government in Brandenburg, where Tesla recently opened a Giga factory, illustrates what Charles Lindblom termed in 1977 the privileged position of business. To makeRead More

Plattelandsjongeren, Politieke Participatie en Sociale Media: Ervaringen met een Proj

November 23, 2021 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Project reports No Comment 4 Views

De politieke participatie van jongeren in het algemeen en die van jongeren op het platteland in het bijzonder is niet optimaal. De betrokkenen zijn dan ook ondergerepresenteerd in de politiek, hetgeen weer gevolgenRead More

Charles Lindblom on the Market, Elites, Inequality and our Inability to Think Clear

June 22, 2021 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Social Criticism No Comment 11 Views

Charles Lindblom (1917 – 2017), one of the most important political scientists of the twentieth century, published in 2000 The Market System : What it is, how it works, and what to makeRead More

Planning a future together: Could Eisenhüttenstadt use some deliberative democracy?

June 1, 2021 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Urban Sociology and Tourism No Comment 3 Views

Political communities occasionally come to crossroads where fundamental, far-reaching decisions must be made. At such times, it can enhance the democratic and substantive quality of decision-making if significant numbers of citizens are invitedRead More

Loneliness, unhappiness, consumerism and its political consequences: observations and

April 3, 2021 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Social Criticism No Comment 8 Views

Twenty years ago, the American political psychologist Robert E. Lane (1917 – 2017) published The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (2000). In it, he showed that Westerners (and Americans in particular) wereRead More

Angry, but not bad people on the Brandenburg countryside

June 5, 2019 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Populism, Project reports, Research No Comment 4 Views

We are in a small town in rural Brandenburg and talk for two days with 32 long-term unemployed people. Most of them are older than 50. They opted to become a part ofRead More

Talking straight to youngsters in Hamburg

May 7, 2019 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Project reports, Research No Comments 3 Views

We are in a less affluent part from Hamburg for a two-day Workshop. About 70% of our 32 participants have a migration background. We talk for about 10 hours with two different groupsRead More

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