New research shows that public health authorities should focus on building long-term hope during the pandemic. If new variants of coronavirus emerge, it will be important not just to appeal to fear but to induce hope, researchers argue.

Three associate professors of political science – Lise Degn, Daniel Bischof and Martin Vinæs Larsen from Aarhus BSS – each receive a Young Researcher Fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation.

According to new research from associate professor of political science Andreas Albertsen, the solution could be a vaccine tax, paid by the buyers of the vaccines and transferred to the WHO vaccine distribution fund COVAX.

Assistant professor of political science Merete Bech Seeberg has received a grant of DKK 2.9 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Inge Lehmann programme for her project ’Women in politics in Africa’.

Friday 8 October 2021, the department celebrated the new graduates with an event in the Main Hall. See the pictures from the Graduation day here.

Assistant professor of political science Nicholas Haas has written the best article in the category ‘representation and electoral systems’ and receives the Lawrence Longley Award from the American Political Science Association. The article has been published in the American Political Science Review, a leading journal in the field of political science.

In countries with long-standing democracies such as Denmark and the US, we tend to turn a blind eye to undemocratic behaviour from our politicians. In countries where democracy is still relatively new, the citizens are much more attentive, whereas in old democracies, we risk paving the way for undemocratic heads of government.

Are you morally obligated not to benefit from an injustice, even though you yourself had no control over it? Professor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen challenges a common line of reasoning on duties ascribed to innocent beneficiaries of injustices such as slavery, greenhouse gas emissions, colonialism, and sexism.