30 June 2021
“In Germany, the vast majority of people are concerned about the state of democracy and the aggressive tone in public. This is the conclusion of a cross-national study by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the organisation More in Common, which was presented in Stuttgart”.
25 June 2021
An op-ed by Jérémie Gagné and Laura-Kristine Krause: "How climate policy could work: People want more laws, not more personal initiative. Five recommendations for action on how climate protection can unite society instead of dividing it”.
Wie Klimapolitik funktionieren könnte: Die Menschen wollen mehr Gesetze, nicht mehr Eigeninitiative
19 June 2021
A new report by More in Common, an international group that works on social polarisation, finds a broad consensus across Germany for climate action, alongside concerns about fairness and a sense of personal helplessness. Two-thirds of Germans it polled want binding climate rules.
“Politicians are threatening social cohesion by not acting,” says Laura-Kristine Krause, the outfit’s Germany director.
11 June 2021
“We are inherently social animals, and we need that sense of belonging and attachment. We have emotional needs that we can’t provide for in isolation,” Míriam Juan-Torres González, a senior researcher at More in Common, an organization that studies polarization, told me.
09 June 2021
A new study seeks to understand the Lone Star State by exploring how its people’s values are woven together.