Die Statistik als fachliche Disziplin muss sich in einem rasch wandelnden Umfeld behaupten, das durch den Aufstieg der Data Science, den Bedeutungszuwachs der künstlichen Intelligenz sowie neue Datenstrukturen charakterisiert wird. Wie kann sich die Statistik hier behaupten oder verlorenes...

While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal outcomes. This paper serves as introduction to a special issue (SI) examining the relationship between social protection and social cohesion in low- and...

Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions...