Family Change and Family Policy in Comparative Perspective

Research question/goal: 

The project studies family changes and family policies in a long-term comparative view. Results are being published in a series of 5 volumes with 18 country studies and 2 comparative volumes. In addition, a database on family policies in Europe has been developed as a major source for comparative analyses and family policy indicators. The database will be made available to the academic public after the conclusion of the project.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
DFG, MZES
Duration: 
1994 to 2002
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
official statistics, secondary analysis, production of time series
Geographic Space: 
Western and Central Europe (EU and Norway, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary), United States, Canada, and New Zealand

Publications

Books

Kamerman, Sheila B., and Alfred J. Kahn (Eds.) (1997): Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Family Change and Family Policies in the West; 1] more
Bahle, Thomas (1995): Familienpolitik in Westeuropa. Ursprünge und Wandel im internationalen Vergleich. Frankfurt/NewYork: Campus Verlag. more

Journal Articles

Scheiwe, Kirsten (2003): Caring and paying for children and gender inequalities: institutional configurations in comparative perspective. Journal of family history, 28, issue 1, pp. 182-198. more
Willekens, Harry, and Kirsten Scheiwe (2003): Introduction: The deep roots, stirring present, and uncertain future of family law. Journal of family history, 28, issue 1, pp. 5-14. more
Willekens, Harry (2003): Is contemporary western family law historically unique?. Journal of family history, 28, issue 1, pp. 70-107. more
Bahle, Thomas (1998): Family Policy in Germany: Towards a Macro-sociological Frame for Analysis. EURODATA Newsletter, issue 7, pp. 21-26. more
Wiesehan, Gretchen (1998): Presentation "Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn: Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States". EURODATA Newsletter, issue 7, pp. 27-28. more

Book Chapters

Fix, Birgit (2003): Familienpolitik im internationalen Vergleich. Von Europa lernen. Martin R. Textor (Ed.) Online-Familienhandbuch. München: Staatsinstitut für Frühpädagogik. more
Fix, Birgit (2003): Kinderbetreuung in Frankreich, Finnland und Schweden. Martin R. Textor (Ed.) Kindergartenpädagogik Online-Handbuch. 1st ed., München: http://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/913.html. more
Bahle, Thomas (2000): The family dimension of the welfare state in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Pp. 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. Pp. 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.. Pp. 125-138 in: Andreas Netzler, Michael Opielka (Eds.) Neubewertung der Familienarbeit in der Sozialpolitik. more

MZES Working Papers

Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher, Katherina Fuduli and Beatrix Holzer (1998): Developing a family policy database for Europe. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 27] more
Fix, Birgit (1998): The Institutionalization of Family Welfare: The Social Division of Labour in the Field of Child Care in Austria and Germany. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 24] more
Jurado Guerrero, Teresa, and Manuela Naldini (1996): Is the South so different? Italian and Spanish Families in Comparative Perspective (The International Project on Family Changes and Family Policies). Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 12] more
Scheiwe, Kirsten (1996): Couples, Parents, Children and the State: Defining Family Obligations in Germany (The International Project on Family Changes and Family Policies). Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 14] 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

Other Publications

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
Rothenbacher, Franz (1997): Social Change in Europe and the Impact on Family Structures. Durban, South Africa more