The COVID-19 crisis caused broad segments of the public to support protests and feel concerned about their own political rights, according to new research from Aarhus University. Professor Michael Bang Petersen believes that the results of this new study could be used to improve how we handle other crises, for instance the energy crisis and the climate crisis.

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.

In the Brexit referendum in 2016, Liverpool voted “remain”. Now, research shows that citizens in the Liverpool area have become less sceptic towards the EU by boycotting the Eurosceptic newspaper The Sun.

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.

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.

A new study from the HOPE project can help explain Black Lives Matter protests as well as the burning of an effigy of the Danish prime minister, says professor Michael Bang Petersen.

New research from Aarhus BSS at Aarhus University shows that openness about the effectiveness and side effects of vaccines bolster confidence in the health authorities, and this is a crucial factor if we are to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.

Against all odds, environmentalist Greta Thunberg has succeeded in becoming a political icon. Professor of political science Thomas Olesen from Aarhus BSS has analysed how this was possible.

How big a role do political parties actually play in shaping public opinion? Using unique data, researchers from the Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University have studied how voters’ opinions follow the party they support when the party suddenly changes its position on popular and well-established welfare schemes.