https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/43820 2026-04-29T14:09:53Z 2026-04-29T14:09:53Z Spannagel, Janika https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/46046 2025-06-12T10:11:39Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Academic Freedom in Constitutions (AFC) Dataset (1789–2022) Spannagel, Janika The Academic Freedom in Constitutions (AFC) dataset is a global comparative dataset with de jure provisions on academic freedom at the level of national constitutions. It covers constitutional guarantees of the freedom of science, of academic freedom, of university autonomy, as well as of the freedom of teaching in 203 countries, spanning the period from 1789 to 2022.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Bouwman, Bastiaan https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/33606 2024-06-18T14:25:59Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Dialogue and Denunciation: The World Council of Churches, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights during the Cold War Bouwman, Bastiaan While the historiography on the religious Cold War has tended to focus on Christian anticommunism, the World Council of Churches (WCC) sought to transcend the Cold War while simultaneously advancing religious freedom in the Soviet Union. This article connects the WCC's ecclesiastical diplomacy to the wider story of human rights, from which religion has too often been excluded. The WCC's quest for Christian fellowship led it to integrate the Russian Orthodox Church into its membership, but this commitment generated tensions with the rise of Soviet dissidence. Moreover, the WCC's turn towards the left and the Third World contrasted with newly ascendant voices for human rights in the 1970s: Amnesty International's depoliticised liberalism, evangelical anticommunism, and the Vatican under John Paul II. Thus, the WCC, an early and prominent transnational voice for human rights, ran afoul of shifts in both the Cold War and the politics of protest.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabe, Wiebke Kostka, Genia https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/35766 2024-06-25T14:30:37Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia Rabe, Wiebke; Kostka, Genia Recent years have witnessed a rise in global investments in the digital economy. The growing digital reach of Chinese tech companies is responsible for at least part of this transformation. Yet, little is known about how host country citizens view China’s increasing stature in the digital sphere. Focusing on Chinese investments in mobile payment platforms (CIM), this article explains citizens’ levels of approval of Chinese outward investments in the digital economy. Based on online surveys conducted in four selected Southeast Asian countries – Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines – this research shows that citizens of these four countries perceive the benefits of CIM to outweigh the risks, with approval rates to be higher for Thailand and Malaysia, and lower for Indonesia and the Philippines. We find these high levels of approval for CIM to be significantly associated with perceived personal benefit, such as price reductions and an increase in purchasing choices. By contrast, country-level factors, such as geopolitical concerns about China, do matter in some contexts, but overall show less explanatory influence. These results shed light on citizens’ views of different types of foreign investments and of China, and support previous arguments on the separation between consumer behavior and politics.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu Kim, Jessica Boado, Hector Cebolla Schimmoller, Laura Kou, Yi Palcios, Juan Sebastian Rico https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/46781 2025-07-01T01:04:54Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climate skepticism and action: The Philippines Survey Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu; Kim, Jessica; Boado, Hector Cebolla; Schimmoller, Laura; Kou, Yi; Palcios, Juan Sebastian Rico This survey is part of the research project The Ecology of Individuals’ Disposition for Climate Change Populism, funded by the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence. The project aims to investigate how global, national, and individual-level factors shape climate change skepticism and action. Unlike many studies that focus solely on individual-level, socio-economic determinants of climate-change attitudes, this survey examines the interactions between micro and macro-level mediators of such attitudes. The survey was conducted in the Philippines from March to April 2024. Respondents were recruited through online access panels (double opt-in) established by RAKUTEN, an external survey contractor. Details about their recruitment methods and panels are provided in the attached documentation. The survey was administered by RAKUTEN using the CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing) method. The target population consisted of adults (18+) holding Philippine citizenship. A quota sampling method, based on age, gender, and region of residence, was employed to ensure a representative sample. The final sample size was 1,500 respondents. The survey explores levels of skepticism about climate change in relation to 1) trend skepticism (doubts about whether climate change is happening or real), 2) attribution skepticism (doubts about the role of humans in driving climate change), 3) impact skepticism (doubts about the seriousness of climate change threat), 4) respondents’ reasoning for or against reducing emissions in their home country, and 5) their willingness to take action to reduce the effect of climate change. In addition to standard socio-demographic questions, respondents answered questions about trust in science and scientists, self-efficacy, personal freedoms, authoritarian personality traits, overconfidence, and individual exposure to global influences. The survey included both standard questions and survey experiments. Where available, we adapted suitable questions from other social surveys, the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) Environmental modules, the World Values Survey, the Eurobarometer, and the Public Attitudes Toward Liberal Script Survey (PALS). The science populism scale was taken from Mede, Schäfer, and Füchslin (2021). Mede, Niels G; Schäfer, Mike S; Füchslin, Tobias (2021). The SciPop Scale for measuring science-related populist attitudes in surveys: Development, test, and validation. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 33(2):273-293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa026

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