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Helmut K. Anheier

Helmut K. Anheier

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Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School in Berlin and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.

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  1. Angela Merkel’s World of Yesterday
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    Angela Merkel’s World of Yesterday

    Dec 13, 2024 Helmut K. Anheier highlights how and why the former German chancellor’s legacy has soured in the three years since she left power.

  2. What Germany’s Next Government Must Do
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    What Germany’s Next Government Must Do

    Nov 15, 2024 Helmut K. Anheier argues that whoever wins the upcoming snap election must make progress in four key areas.

  3. Will the German Center Hold?
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    Will the German Center Hold?

    Sep 5, 2024 Helmut K. Anheier considers what is driving support for extremist parties in the country’s eastern states.

  4. Is Democracy Really in Retreat?
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    Is Democracy Really in Retreat?

    Aug 23, 2024 Helmut K. Anheier, et al. trace the contours of the global ideological battle between liberalism and the “autocratic sufficiency thesis.”

  5. Germany in the Doldrums
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    Germany in the Doldrums

    Dec 19, 2023 Helmut K. Anheier warns that the government's paralysis is exacerbating the problem.

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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought - and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway

    For decades, an efficiency-centered “economic style” has dominated public policy, overriding the concerns for fairness that animated the New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Now, Americans must brace for economic governance that delivers neither efficiency nor fairness, only chaos.

    highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    Could High-Skill Immigration Increase Under Trump?

    Michael R. Strain argues that the recent kerfuffle over foreign workers underscores the president-elect’s pragmatic instincts.
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    What Happened to International Law?

    Eric Posner sees the web of treaties, conventions, and institutions as another victim of the anti-globalization backlash.
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    Europe’s Year of Fundamental Choices

    Ana Palacio considers the complex array of internal and external challenges the European Union must confront in 2025.
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    Texas’s Online Age-Verification Law Must Be Overturned

    Lilian Coral & Prem Trivedi urge the US Supreme Court to protect internet users from legislation posing new privacy and security risks.

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