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.
18 May 2021
Americans who turn to local TV, radio, or newspapers for political news tend to have more accurate perceptions of people with different political views than do those who rely mostly on The New York Times or Fox News, according to research by More in Common, a nonprofit that analyzes political divides.