Challenges in Advanced Democracies (CHAD)

The research group focuses on challenges and transformations in modern democracies, including institutional changes, globalization, lobbyism, terrorism, European integration, economic crises, aging populations and human security issues.

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About the research group

The research group focuses its scholarly activity on the diverse challenges facing established democracies and the transformations they undergo. Such challenges and transformations relate to a variety of specific research foci such as institutions, diversity, transnationalization, globalization, terrorism and counterterrorism, European integration, and human security. The latter encompasses environmental issues as well as the ways that welfare states address important challenges such as labor migration and immigration, economic downturns, and an aging population. Alongside its concern with empirical phenomena, the group also directs its attention towards contemporary political philosophy, studying the concepts and principles that people use to describe, explain, and evaluate political events and institutions.