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Political opinion polls can do two things: they can reflect public opinion or they can shape public opinion. Florian Woschnagg and Matthias Karmasin recently conducted a study on the credibility of political opinion polls and how they are perceived - depending on the type of medium that commissions and publishes the opinion poll.

Researchers from BOKU and other universities are developing a new model of a transformational state with starting points for effective climate policy. What role does the state play in the fight against the climate crisis? In the "Nature Perspectives" format, scientists led by Ulrich Brand from the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna, the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna, BOKU Vienna and WU Vienna analyze the structural limits of the state's ability to act in the transition to climate neutrality.