Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.
Protests are omnipresent – they are being violated by authoritarian regimes, from radical right-wringing parades to walls full of graffiti. Despite the evident importance of protests and social movement for democratic systems, we know little about their dynamics. Who is drawn to protests in the street and who chooses other forms of resistance? Under which conditions are movements successful and when do they fail? How does the role of political organizations change as people increasingly communicate online? Which political activism creates a democratic culture, which further exclusion and discrimination? Systematic analyzes are necessary in order to answer these questions. However, research on this issue remains episodic and fragmentary in the German-speaking social sciences. The Institute for Social Movement Studies (ipb) aims to fill these gaps. Social movement scholars, mostly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The ipb initiaties and collaborative research projects. It operates in the spirit of public sociology: foundational research is developed in dialogue with practitioners. ipb understands social science research as a contribution to tackling social problems that needs to face public scrutiny.
Project(s): Protestlandschaft Deutschland
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
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Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.
On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.