Dr. Florian Ranft
TeamSelected Publications
Work in the Digital Age: Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (mit Max Neufeind und Jacqueline O'Reilly, 2018), London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield.Freeing the Road: Shaping the future for autonomous vehicles (mit Martin Adler, Patrick Diamond, Eugenia Guerrero & Matthew Laza), Policy Network Special Report (November 2016).
Aiming High: Progressive Politics in a High-Risk, High-Opportunity Era (2016), London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
On the brink of Brexit: How the referendum puts the future of Britain and Europe at great risk, in: Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte - Journal of Social Democracy, (2016) 1, 29-31.
Was für die EU und Großbritannien auf dem Spiel steht (mit Roger Liddle), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin (2015).
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Contributions
Um dem digitalen Wandel Richtung und Ziel zu geben, braucht es ein neues Narrativ. Wolfgang Schroeder und Svenja Falk stellen ihr Diskussionspapier zum Konzept der digitalen Souveränität vor und diskutieren ihre Thesen mit Franziska Brantner.
Viktor Orbán successfully held on to power in Hungary. The aspired regime change did not come to fruition. Nonetheless, the united opposition’s campaign was not in vain. It unmistakably elucidated illiberal state practices which provide us with valuable insights into political strategies, narratives, and messaging. What lessons can European progressives take away for future alliances?
Die Übergangenen – Strukturschwach und Erfahrungsstark 2022 | Paulina Fröhlich, Tom Mannewitz & Florian Ranft
Der Klimawandel und die Sorge vor dessen Folgen beschäftigen auch die Menschen in strukturschwachen Regionen. Eine höhere Priorität haben dort jedoch andere Themen: Soziale Herausforderungen und Angst vor ungerechten Folgen der Transformations- und Klimapolitik überwiegen. Das befindet die qualitative Studie “Die Übergangenen: Strukturschwach & erfahrungsstark” des Berliner Thinktanks Das Progressive Zentrum in Kooperation mit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
On 3 April 2022, Hungary is set for an election. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party eye another term in power with yet unforeseen consequences for the country’s rule of law and democratic institutions. A unique alliance of conservatives, social democrats, liberals, greens, and nationalists under the leadership of Péter Márki-Zay has campaigned to create momentum for political change. Will this exceptional big tent coalition campaign be a model for future elections? Did Márki-Zay manage to overcome smear campaigns targeting critical voices, moral panic around LGBTQ+ issues and media bias in favour of the ruling party? And on everyone’s mind: was the Russian invasion of Ukraine a game-changer, and if so – in whose favour?
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Together with our panelists, we will look at the election result in Hungary and the impact it may have on the EU as well as the European progressive family.
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Klára Dobrev is a Member of the European Parliament (S&D Group). She is a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs as well as the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee. In 2021, she took part in the Hungarian opposition primary and played a pivotal role in building the united opposition against Victor Orbán in the 2022 Hungarian elections.
Anikó Gregor is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. There, she teaches courses in the fields of quantitative and qualitative research methodology and the sociology of gender relations. One of her most recent publications was a report on the pre-election situation in Hungary, published in the Progressive Yearbook 2022 by FEPS.
Maria Skóra is policy fellow at Das Progressive Zentrum in Berlin. Previously, she was in charge of the International Dialogue programme at Das Progressive Zentrum and worked for the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform as Programme Director of the European Growth Initiative. Prior to arriving in Germany, she lived in Warsaw, dividing her professional career between academia as a lecturer and the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
We will begin the event with opening remarks by László Andor, Secretary General of the Foundation For European Progressive Studies.
Agenda
Time: 09.00 – 10.00 AM (CEST)
09.00 AM – Welcome: Dominic Schwickert, Director, Das Progressive Zentrum
09.02 AM – Opening remarks: László Andor, Secretary General, FEPS
09.05 AM – Political insight: Klára Dobrev, MEP, S&D Group
09.20 AM – Expert response: Anikó Gregor, Assistant Professor, ELTE
09.30 AM – Q&A with the audience: Moderated by Maria Skóra, Policy Fellow, Das Progressive Zentrum
09.50 AM – Closing remarks: Klára Dobrev and Anikó Gregor
10.00 AM – End of the event
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Neue Studie: Die Übergangenen Strukturschwach & erfahrungsstark
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Under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the beginning of the 2020s has also been politically marked by generation-defining elections. Less than one year after Joe Biden’s historic victory in the United States and half a year before France heads to the polls, Germany voted for change: Merkel’s center-right party lost points, while the Social Democrats and the Greens made meaningful gains. Ricarda Lang, Jeremy Cliffe, and Tobias Dürr discuss the implications.
Germany has voted for change. But will the result from the 2021 German Election deliver progress? Join newly elected Green Member of Parliament Ricarda Lang, Jeremy Cliffe, and Tobias Dürr as they dissect the election results, explore the different coalition options, and what it all means for progressives in Germany, Europe and North America.
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