How and why do the perception and acceptance of political rules and institutions change? This is the hot-button question that a new research group on major structural change, headed by Lydia Mechtenberg from University of Hamburg, is asking. A research group in biology will also continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation for another grant period.
Using different theory-based lab and survey experiments as well as other empirical methods, the researchers in the new research group Bedeutender struktureller Wandel (FOR BISC) will study the causal mechanisms of social change. ...
