Dr. Thomas Bahle

picture Thomas Bahle
Project director
Thomas [dot] Bahle [at] mzes [dot] uni-mannheim [dot] de
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+49-621-181-2524
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+49-621-181-2803
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+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:110
68159  Mannheim

Research Interests

  • Welfare state
  • Family policy
  • Social services
  • Minimum income security and poverty

Projects

A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States

A1.4
Social Support and Activation Policies for Families at Risk in Five European Countries

RP7 A1 Market Economies and Welfare States

European System of Welfare State Indicators (EUWI): Political, Social and Institutional Change in Comparison
Social Assistance in Europe. Indicators of Minimum Income Security Schemes

RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification

Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)

RP6 AI Associated Projects

VFA-Report Quality of Life in Germany 2006

RP5 A2 Social Services and Social Security: The European Welfare States in Comparison

Social Services in the Welfare State: A Comparison of Great Britain, France, and Germany

RP4 A2 Migration, Integration, and Ethnic Conflict

Family Change and Family Policy in Comparative Perspective
Family and the welfare state in Europe (TMR Programme)

RP1-3 Department I : Living Conditions and Inequality in the Relationship between Social Structure and the Welfare State

Family Change and Family Policy

Publications

Monographs

Bahle, Thomas, Vanessa Hubl and Michaela Pfeifer (2011): The last safety net. A handbook of minimum income protection in Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. more
Bahle, Thomas (2007): Wege zum Dienstleistungsstaat: Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Vergleich. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Thomas Bahle, Claus Wendt and Angelika Scheuer (2007): Report Lebensqualität 2006. Im Auftrag des Verbandes Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller. Mannheim: MZES. more
Pfenning, Astrid, and Thomas Bahle (2000): Families and Family Policies in Europe: Comparative Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. more
Bahle, Thomas (1995): Familienpolitik in Westeuropa. Ursprünge und Wandel im internationalen Vergleich. Frankfurt/NewYork: Campus Verlag. more

Journal Articles

Bahle, Thomas, Claudia Göbel and Vanessa Hubl (2013): Familiäre Risikogruppen im europäischen Vergleich. WSI Mitteilungen, issue 03/2013, p. 192-200. more
Bahle, Thomas (2008): The state and social services in Britain, France and Germany since the 1980s. Reform and growth in a period of welfare state crisis. European Societies, 10, issue 1, p. 25-47. more
Bahle, Thomas (2005): Familienpolitik in der EU - was können wir von anderen Ländern lernen?. Wirtschaftsdienst. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 85, issue 3, p. 151-156. more
Bahle, Thomas (2003): Staat, Kirche und Familienpolitik in westeuropäischen Ländern. Ein historisch- soziologischer Vergleich. Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), Sonderheft, issue 33, p. 391-411. more
Bahle, Thomas (2003): The changing institutionalization of social services in England and Wales, France and Germany: is the welfare state on the retreat?. Journal of European Social Policy, 13, issue 1, p. 5-20. more
Bahle, Thomas (1998): Family Policy in Germany: Towards a Macro-sociological Frame for Analysis. EURODATA Newsletter, issue 7, p. 21-26. more
Bahle, Thomas, and Mathias Maucher (1997): The Mannheim International Family Policy Project: The Family Policies Database. EURODATA Newsletter, issue 6, p. 22-26. more
Bahle, Thomas (1995): Family Changes and Family Policies in the Western World. An international research project. EURODATA Newsletter, issue 2, p. 20. more

Book Chapters

Bahle, Thomas, Michaela Pfeifer and Claus Wendt (2010): Social assistance. p. 448-461 in: Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, Christopher Pierson (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press . more
Bahle, Thomas, Jürgen Kohl and Claus Wendt (2010): Welfare State. p. 571-628 in: Stefan Immerfall, Göran Therborn (Eds.) Handbook of European Societies. New York: Springer. more
Bahle, Thomas (2009): Public child care in Europe: historical trajectories and new directions. p. 23-42 in: Kirsten Scheiwe, Harry Willekens (Eds.) Child care and preschool development in Europe. Institutional perspectives. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Bahle, Thomas (2008): Family policies patterns in the enlarged EU. p. 100-125 in: Jens Alber, Tony Fahey, Chiara Saraceno (Eds.) Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union. London: Routledge. more
Pfenning, Astrid, and Thomas Bahle (2002): Structures of Social Services in Germany. p. 68-91 in: Social services in transition - towards a European social services information system. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik. more
Bahle, Thomas (2000): The family dimension of the welfare state in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. p. 143-164 in: Hans-Joachim Schulze (Ed.) Stability and Complexity. Perspectives for a Child-Oriented Family Policy. Amsterdam, Oxford, Boston: VU University Press. more
Bahle, Thomas, and Mathias Maucher (1998): Aufbau einer komparativen Datenbank über Familienpolitik in Europa - ein Werkstattbericht. p. 233-258 in: Heinz-Herbert Noll, Peter Flora (Eds.) Sozialberichterstattung und Sozialstaatsbeobachtung. Individuelle Wohlfahrt und wohlfahrtsstaatliche Institutionen im Spiegel empirischer Analysen.. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus. more
Bahle, Thomas (1998): Familienarbeit und Typen der Familienpolitik.. p. 125-138 in: Andreas Netzler, Michael Opielka (Eds.) Neubewertung der Familienarbeit in der Sozialpolitik. more
Bahle, Thomas, and Franz Rothenbacher (1998): Family Policies in Germany: After Re-unification the Shock of Globalization. p. 37-49 in: Developments in National Family Policies in 1996. Brüssel: Europäische Kommission. more
Bahle, Thomas (1996): Familienpolitik in der Europäischen Union: Nationale Profile und europäischer Einfluß. p. 271-289 in: Thomas König, Elmar Rieger, Hermann Schmitt (Eds.) Das europäische Mehrebenensystem. Frankfurt/New York: Campus-Verlag. more
Bahle, Thomas, and Franz Rothenbacher (1996): Family Policy in Germany in 1995. p. 25-36 in: J. Ditch, J. Bradshaw, T. Eardley (Eds.) Developments in National Family Policies in 1995. Brussels: European Commission. more

MZES Working Papers

Bahle, Thomas, and Mathias Maucher (2003): Kindergeldsysteme und Steuererleichterungen für Kinder in Westeuropa: institutionelle Merkmale und quantitative Indikatoren im Ländervergleich, 1950 - 2000. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 72] more
Bahle, Thomas, and Astrid Pfenning (2001): Angebotsformen und Trägerstrukturen sozialer Dienste im europäischen Vergleich. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 34] more
Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher, Katherina Fuduli and Beatrix Holzer (1998): Developing a family policy database for Europe. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 27] more
Bahle, Thomas, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher and Kirsten Scheiwe (1992): Family Change and Family Policy. A bibliography of studies and data sources. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I, Bibliographie; 1] more

Thesis

Bahle, Thomas (2005): Rückzug oder Expansion? - Der Wohlfahrtsstaat und die Reform sozialer Dienste in England und Wales, Frankreich und Deutschland, 1980-2000. Mannheim: Universität Mannheim. more

Papers / Reports

Hubl, Vanessa, and Thomas Bahle (2012): EuMin: Mindestsicherung in Europa. Datenbankdokumentation. Mannheim more
Hubl, Vanessa, and Thomas Bahle (2012): EuMin: Minimum Income Protection in Europe. Database Documentation. Mannheim more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Heinz-Herbert Noll, Thomas Bahle, Claus Wendt and Angelika Scheuer (2006): VFA-Report Lebensqualität 2006. Mannheim more
Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix, Peter Flora, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher and Harry Willekens (2002): Family Change and Family Policies: Belgium. Mannheim [Preprints of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research] more
Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix and Franz Rothenbacher (2002): Family Change and Family Policies: Germany. Mannheim [Preprints of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research] more

Conference Presentations

Göbel, Claudia, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Thomas Bahle and Vanessa Hubl (2012): Sozialer Schutz und Arbeitsmarktintegration familiärer Risikogruppen. Politiken und Lebenslagen im europäischen Vergleich. [Beiratssitzung der Projekte zur HBS-Ausschreibung "Sozialstaaten und europäische Reformprozesse im Vergleich", WZB Berlin, September 12th, 2012] more
Bahle, Thomas, and Vanessa Hubl (2010): Mindestsicherung. [1. Tagung 'Sozialversicherung: Wandel, Wirkung, Weiterentwicklung', Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, May 05th to May 06th, 2010] more
Bahle, Thomas, and Vanessa Hubl (2010): Mindestsicherung. [2. Tagung 'Sozialversicherung: Wandel, Wirkung, Weiterentwicklung', Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, October 04th to October 05th, 2010] more
Bahle, Thomas (2010): Minimum income protection systems and benefit receipt. [Meeting of the Equalsoc MIPI group, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, June 15th to June 16th, 2010] more
Bahle, Thomas (2010): The role of minimum income protection systems within social security systems. [The global crisis: impact and challenges for social security. Seventeenth international research seminar on issues in social security. Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS)., Sigtuna, June 16th to June 18th, 2010] more
Bahle, Thomas, and Michaela Pfeifer (2008): Minimum income protection for the poor in Europe: growing need, declining public support?. [ESPAnet Conference 2008 "Cross-Border Influence in Social Policy", Helsinki, September 18th to September 20th, 2008] more
Bahle, Thomas, and Bernhard Ebbinghaus (2008): Vorstellung des ersten Zwischenberichts. [Beiratssitzung zum 1. Zwischenbericht, Düsseldorf, October 17th, 2008] more