Targeted ads on social media allow researchers to recruit hard-to-reach or small populations such as ethnoreligious minorities. Seeking to guide researchers in dealing with the corresponding opport...

This Special Issue examines the persistence of AfD's electoral success and the party's strong regional entrenchment in Eastern Germany more than a decade after its foundation. Bringing together ten...

Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

This study investigates whether unstructured spare time is a significant correlate of self-reported offending among adolescents in multiple countries. Drawing on survey data from 58,425 13-to-17-year-...

Religion has long been considered an important determinant of voting behaviour. However, the secularisation of Western societies has changed its role. Secularisation not only limits the political relevance of religion, it may also affect the nature of religious cleavages themselves.

This article examines whether and to what extent the lifestyles of social groups are linked to their attitudes regarding key areas of political conflicts. Scholarly debates on new societal cleavages p...

Findings on the victim-offender overlap show that victimization often leads individuals to engage in criminal behavior, influenced by societal, situational, and personal factors. However, the role ...

PhD: Rethinking Social Cohesion in Ethnically Diverse Schools: Linking Horizontal and Vertical Ties

Das FGZ erforscht als Verbundprojekt an elf Standorten Begriff und Konzeptionen, Quellen und Gefährdungen, Folgen und Wirkungen sowie historische, globale und regionale Kontexte gesellschaftlichen Zus...

Comparative Migration Studies - This paper provides a cross-country analysis of anti-Muslim hate crimes in Europe, using ODHIR-OSCE data for 30 countries between 2016 and 2022. We systematically...

First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...

Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

Abstract. Although many scholars have studied the effects of repression on dissent, we have relatively little information on how the public perceives these

Cultural Roots of Prejudice: Cultural Scripts and the Reactivation of Antisemitism in Germany

Abstract. The integration paradox—the positive association between absolute education and perceived discrimination among more visible immigrant groups—has