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What significance does religious pluralization have for the political culture in Germany and other selected countries in Europe? Gert Pickel, a sociologist of religion at the University of Leipzig, explored this question based on data from the Bertelsmann Stiftung's 2017...

This documentation summarizes Young Europeans’ Forum 2019 on “Building bridges for social cohesion,” held from June 25 to 27 in Berlin. The Bertelsmann Stiftung organized the Forum together with the Aladdin Project and in cooperation with UNESCO.

Blockchain is one key technology that will dominate the economy in the near future. China, Japan and South Korea protect their blockchain innovations with patents...

Algorithms determine the advertising we see, make decisions regarding loan grants and university admissions, and suggest suitable partners for us on dating sites. Every day, each of us is affected by decisions that algorithms make for and about us. Yet what do Europeans, in...

A report by AlgorithmWatch in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung, supported by the Open Society Foundations

Wolfgang Schulz and Stephan Dreyer analyze in detail the relevant articles of the GDPR and elucidate whether the new regulation can promote more comprehensible and verifiable algorithmic decision-making systems. They examine to what extent the new regulation can safeguard...

When the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), came to power through a landslide election victory in 2014, few believed that the new government would transform India and make its “Good Days for Everyone” campaign slogan a reality within its five-year term....

Sustainability begins in the municipalities - they are the basis for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Hardly any local authority that is currently dealing with the issue of sustainability does so without taking a closer...

Our newest GED Focus Paper looks at imports and voting results in 2013 and 2017 in Germany. By measuring Chinese import penetration on an electoral district level and running a set of linear regression models, the paper finds that districts more heavily exposed to import...