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Ethics rules and procedures for political science research
Most funding agencies, professional associations and universities have established ethics rules and procedures for research (see e.g. here and here). By and large, and in global comparison, these rules...
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Climate Change and Security
Research on the security implications of climate change started in the mid-1990s and has by now become one of the most productive interdisciplinary activities in which political scientists cooperate...
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First Study on Publication Activity of Swiss Political Scientists Published
The slogan “publish or perish” is certainly appropriate in the sense that, in most countries and universities, becoming a professor is impossible unless the respective candidate has published. This...
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Bugs at UN Headquarters
Renovation work at UN headquarters in Geneva over the past few years has turned up a considerable amount of bugs. Now there is another bug problem at UN headquarters in New York. Whereas the Geneva...
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Weapons of Mass-Citation
How can it be that a winner of the Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel Price in Mathematics) has an h-index of around 7, whereas some top researchers in microbiology have an h-index of 70 or more...
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Returns on investment from public development aid
The German development aid minister (Dirk Niebel) has recently argued that every Euro of bilateral development aid creates a return of 1.80 Euros for the German export industry. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung,...
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Coping With the “Power of Towers”
In November 2009, 57.5% of Swiss voters, in a fit of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment, accepted a direct-democratic initiative against minarets. Ever since, article 72 para 3 of the Swiss...
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