Politics
Many people hold deep-seated misperceptions about immigration, painting its nature, effects, and governance in excessively dark colors. Rooted in concerns about out-group threats, these mistaken beliefs are often hard to correct as people are reluctant to accept contradictory information. This exacerbates polarization, undermines the deliberative tenets of pluralist discourse, and ...
+ Read moreDie internationale Mobilität führt dazu, dass ein wachsender Anteil der Wohnbevölkerung in Europa kein Wahlrecht hat. Dieser Blogbeitrag stellt europäische Initiativen vor, die sich angesichts dieses demokratischen Defizits für inklusivere politische Rechte einsetzen. So fand etwa am 26. April 2021 der erste internationale «Tag für das Wahlrecht für alle» statt, ...
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In COVID times, one of the challenges of the “new normal” has been to communicate the importance of a set of very unusual and stringent rules that populations must follow to contribute to the preservation of their health and public safety. How did the Swiss government and political elites use
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For nearly three decades, Swiss officials have registered asylum claims based on persecution due to sexual orientation and gender identity. Initially, a predominantly administrative act, the issue is now present and debated in the political space. In these lines, I describe how the issue has developed into an ideologically debated
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Après que les autorités suisses ont durci leur pratique à l’encontre des Érythréen·ne·s en 2017, nombreux·euses sont ceux et celles qui reçoivent des décisions négatives à leurs demandes d’asile. Dans un rapport publié en novembre 2018, et une actualisation de celui-ci à paraître cet hiver, l’Observatoire romand du droit d’asile
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