When Western Education Standards Meet Cultural Spheres. Effects on Human Well-being, Polarization of Attitudes, and Social Cohesion (A05)

• Subject Area: Political Science ; Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 374666841

Project A05 will analyze the effects of education systems, inclusiveness, scope of education, and educational inequality on trust, well-being, and polarization by using multilevel and propensity score analyses, and network models for similarity matrices. A special focus will be on how these effects are moderated by global cultural spheres. Moreover, to capture the possible Western bias in International Organizations’ (IO) policy recommendations, we will investigate the degree and character of liberalism, universalism, and individualism in IO documents.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bremen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Kerstin Martens, until 12/2025; Professor Dr. Michael Windzio