In a guest article for the Alfred Landecker Foundation website, Dr. Jonas Fegert describes current findings from the ongoing SOSEC research project, which is funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation. The project examines social and political moods in times of multiple crises in the USA and Germany. Using an innovative approach, it combines extensive survey data from both countries with social media data and analyses of news events.
In the article, he raises one of the central questions of the project: How crisis-proof are our democracies? Under this heading, he first outlines the project’s approach and then provides fresh data and analyzes from the surveys.