Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission)...

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

This paper studies the long‐term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately...

Like many medical studies, the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE‐II) is based on a non‐random "convenience sample" of self‐recruited participants. To study processes of selectivity in BASE‐II, we used an identical questionnaire to compare BASE‐II with a large, representative reference study,...

This paper summarizes the findings of an analysis among scientific infrastructure service providers. These service providers have been evaluated in regard to their potential services for the management of publication-related research data. By conducting a desk research and an online survey, we...

Elementarschäden an Immobilien werden klimabedingt zunehmen, aber noch immer sindin Deutschland nicht alle Wohnimmobilien gegen Elementarschäden versichert. Sie sindaber überall zu tragbaren Prämien versicherbar. Die zentralen Parameter, die es zu regelngilt, sind der Abdeckungsgrad...