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William T. Adler and Mallory Knodel are with the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-partisan, non-profit U.S.-based civil society organization that works globally to defend human rights and civil liberties online. In this report for KAS, they explore the challenges of maintaining security in U.S. elections and how election officials and policymakers might best address them. While focused on American elections, they hope that some of the findings can also provide guidance for other countries.
Im Vergleich mit Ländern wie Großbritannien, Frankreich und den USA betrachtet, zeichnete sich die Wahlpraxis im Deutschen Kaiserreich durch ein hohes Maß an Sicherheit und Redlichkeit aus. Die Durchführung der Wahlen stand unter dem Schutz des Staates und dies kam sogar den Parteien zugute, die von der Regierung abgelehnt wurden. Seit 1871 wuchsen die Autorität des Reichstags und seiner Abgeordneten stetig an und so konnte das Deutsche Reich bis zum Vorabend des Ersten Weltkriegs deutliche Fortschritte in seiner politischen Kultur verzeichnen.
A new High Representative will assume office in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the coming months. Valentin Inzko, an Austrian, has been holding this position since 2009. He made repeated efforts to maintain a diplomatic and fair relationship with the key political actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An important pre-requisite for the work of a High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina includes vast political experience and support by the international community. An important step for the second pre-requisite has been made with the inauguration of the US President Joe Biden: It is expected that the United States of America and the European Union will again closely coordinate their political engagement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the neighbouring countries.
What attitudes and voting behaviour do Germans with and without a migrant background have? And what about foreigners living in Germany?
Videospiele eignen sich hervorragen, um Weltanschauungen zu verbreiten. Welche Risiken und Chancen das für die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik bietet, darüber spricht Manouchehr Shamsrizi, Mit-Gründer des Gamelab Berlin und Fellow der DGAP, in Folge 35 von #KASkonkret.
This publication is a contribution to promote international cooperation and multilateralism. As the title suggests, it takes stock of the strength with which multilateral thinking and action are historically anchored in certain Latin American countries, the long-term positions that different countries can adopt on this basis, and the policies favored by current governments with respect to multilateral cooperation.
While the stem of the thermometer would rarely drop below zero in Belarus in the winter of 2019/20, the second frost wave with stable double-digit negative temperatures is about to hit Belarus at the beginning of February. The country has been under a thick blanket of snow for weeks, and it also seems to many that the “Belarusian summer” is followed by a long winter, reflecting the political situation. But there is much more to this. Belarus has largely disappeared from the German media at the moment, so this report provides an overview of the overall situation and selects focus areas.
Electoral research is facing great challenges: Dynamics of voting decisions are immense and old certainties are fragile. Voting behaviour has become more individual. This study uses new approaches to investigate the question of voters' emotional relationships to parties. Using a mix of methods from representative surveys and open in-depth interviews, stable emotional patterns can be found among eligible voters.
Die Bundestagswahl 2021 wirft ihre Schatten voraus und wird den zukünftigen Kurs der Bundesrepublik in vielerlei Hinsicht bestimmen. Doch nicht nur in Deutschland wird der Ausgang einer nationalen Wahl mit Spannung erwartet. In den benachbarten Niederlanden sind die Bürgerinnen und Bürger bereits im März dazu aufgerufen, ein neues Parlament (Zweite Kammer der Generalstaaten) zu wählen. Zuletzt trat die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Mark Rutte aufgrund eines Beihilfenskandals zurück und führt die Amtsgeschäfte nunmehr kommissarisch weiter, um die Corona-Maßnahmen des Landes zu koordinieren.
