Projects from Sixth Research Programme (2005-2008)

RP6 A The European Societies and their Integration
RP6 B European Political Systems and their Integration
RP6 I1 Service Projects of the Infrastructure
A1.1 Varieties of Social Governance in Europe: The Social Partners’ Role in Pension and Labour Market Policies
A1.2 Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe: The Varying Scope for Participatory and Social Rights
A1.3 Challenges to Membership Organizations: European Trade Unions in Comparison
A1.4 The Acceptance of the Welfare State
A1.5 The Welfare of Public Servants in European Comparison
A1.6 Attitudes Towards Welfare State Institutions: New Perspectives for the Comparative Welfare State Analysis
A1.7 European System of Welfare State Indicators (EUWI): Political, Social and Institutional Change in Comparison
A2.01 Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)
A2.02 Social Selectivity in Tertiary Education and Labour Market and Stratification Outcomes
A2.03 Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
A2.04 Human Capital Effects of the Welfare State: Institutional Resources, Work Histories and Social Inequality (HCE)
A2.05 Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Social Stratification
A2.06 European Labour Force
A2.07 The Development of a European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC)
A2.08 Social Mobility in a Disaggregated Class Context: A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Occupational Structuration on Mobility Regimes
A2.09 Women’s Labour Market Participation and Sex-specific Occupational Segregation in Europe
A2.10 Social Inequality in Educational Careers of Young Adults
A2.11 Social Consequences of Unemployment
A2.12 The Flexibilization of European Labor Markets: Incidence and Consequences of Atypical Employment
A3.01 The Pluralisation of Living Arrangements and Family Forms: Fertility and Employment
A3.02 Panel Study on Family Dynamics
A3.03 Social Embeddedness and Partnership Relations
A3.04 Educational Aspirations and Reference Groups
A3.05 Preschool Education and Educational Careers among Migrant Children
A3.06 Educational Decisions in Immigrant Families
A3.07 Labour Market Integration: Aussiedler and Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany and Israel
A3.08 The East European Population since 1850
A3.09 Young Immigrants in the German and Israeli Educational Systems
A3.10 Homogamy and Fertility - The Impact of Partnership Context on Family Formation
A3.11 The Economic Integration of Skilled Migrants in Four Countries
A3.12 Social and Ethnic Differences in Residential Choices
AI.1 VFA-Report Quality of Life in Germany 2006
B1.01 Welfare through Organisations: A Comparative Analysis of British and German Associational Life
B1.02 Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy: Private Networks for Public Action
B1.03 Learning to Live Democracy (LLD)
B1.04 European Identity and Young People’s Participation in School and Local (Social) Contexts
B1.05 Parliaments, Representative Government and New Electronic Media Environments: An International Comparison
B1.06 A Unified Model of Voting in Different Institutional Contexts
B1.07 Expectation Formation and Electoral Decision-Making
B1.08 European Social Survey
B1.09 Interactive Mechanism of Mixed-Member Electoral Systems with Two Ballots
B1.10 Migrants as Political Actors
B1.11 Participatory Engineering in European Democracies: Can Democratic Reform Increase the Quantity and Quality of Political Participation?
B1.12 Europe in Context
B2.01 Parliamentary Rules and Institutional Design
B2.02 Europe in National Parliaments
B2.03 Government Formation as an Optimal Combination of the Office- and Policy-Motivation of Parties
B2.04 Coalition Conflict and Party Politics
B2.05 Parties and Democracy in the European Union: Euro-Parties as New Democratic Intermediaries?
B2.06 Europarties Heading East. The Influence of Europarties on Central and Eastern European Partner Parties
B2.07 The Left-Right Ideology: Its Meaning Across Countries and Over Time
B2.08 Integrated and United: A Quest for a Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe (IntUne)
B2.09 Personal Campaign Strategies and Political Representation
B2.10 Ideology and Activism of Green Party Members in Western Europe
B2.11 Comparative Analysis of Party Platforms for the European Election. (The Euromanifestos Project)
B2.12 New ICTs and the Innovation Capacity of Political and Commercial Organisations
B2.14 Formal and Informal Organizations of the Government in the EU-15: Description and Effects on the Decision-making Process Considering EU Intergovernmental Negotiations
B2.15 Majority Rule and Parliamentary Behaviour
B2.16 The Implementation of Community Law in the Member States
B2.17 The Impact of Europeanization on the Determinants of Success and Duration of German Legislation
B3.01 Network of Excellence on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-level Europe" (CONNEX)
B3.02 Internet Connected EU Research (IConnectEU)
B3.03 Democratic Legitimacy via Civil Society Involvement? The Role of the European Commission (DEMOCIV)
B3.04 Local Europe: Impact of EU Governance on Local Civil Society
B3.05 The European Intermediary System
B3.06 State-Society Relations in European Trade Policy: The Civil Society Dialogue of the European Commission
B3.07 The Prospects for EU Democracy After Eastern Enlargement
B3.08 Representation, Delegation and the Role of National Parties in the European Parliament
B3.09 Contamination Effects in Multi-level Systems of Governance
B3.10 Constitutional Politics in the European Union: Parliamentarization and the Institutionalization of Human Rights
B3.11 The European Commission: Controlled Agent or Uncontrolled Bureaucracy?
B3.12 The European Union in International Trade Governance (EU Research Training Network "Dynamics and Obstacles of European Governance")
B3.13 Governance in International Trade: Judicialisation and Positive Integration in the WTO
B3.14 Flexibility and Stability of International Negotiation Systems
B3.15 Exchange in Negotiations. A Dynamic Model of Exchange Processes, applied to the Amsterdam Intergovernmental Conference 1996
B3.16 The Importance of Regional Networks for the Success of EU Rural Development Programmes
B3.17 Institutional Structures of European Health Care Systems: an Institutional-economic Typology
B3.18 Confronting Memories in the Process of European Integration
B3.19 Making EU Politics Public. A Comparative Analysis of the Communication Policies of European Supranational Organizations
B3.20 The Politics of Mobilization: National Parties and EU Decision-making
B3.21 Quantitative Legislative and Compliance Research in the European Union
B4.1 Authoritarian Integration or Democratic Co-operation? The Caucasus between Brussels and Moscow
B4.2 International Support for Democratization Processes in Central and Eastern Europe: The NGO Sector
B4.3 European and Other International Peacebuilding Activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo
B4.4 Transformation of the Political System in Azerbaijan
BI.1 The Impact of the Comintern on the Western European Party System
BI.2 Cooperation with the Institute for European Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
BI.3 Compatibility of Employment and Family in Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar