On 17 September 2020, Professor Iris Eisenberger, Thomas Buocz, and Nikolaus Poechhacker joined the online meeting for the international research project CompCoRe. Thomas Buocz presented the progress on the Austrian case study on behalf of Iris Eisenberger’s team at Uni Graz and Ulrike Felt’s team at Uni Vienna.
He summarised the findings on the constitutional foundations for the Austrian regulatory response to the pandemic, the measures adopted and how long they were in place, what role data collection and scientific advice played, what the main objects of public debate were, and what measures the Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) declared unconstitutional.
CompCoRe is led by Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University, and Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University and receives funding from the U.S. National Foundation for Science (NSF). It comprises scholars of 10 countries to conduct a comparative analysis on the relationship between expertise and trust in the context of COVID-19.