Sixth MZES Research Programme 2005–2008

  

Contents

• Preface
   
• 1 Research Topics and Programme Goals

• 1.1 MZES Mission and Recent Development
• 1.2 Main Themes of the Research Programme
• 1.3 Main Characteristics of the MZES Research
• 1.4 Cooperation and Integration
• 1.5 Main Goals of the Sixth Planning Period
   

• 2 Structure and Organization of the MZES

• 2.1 Structure of MZES
• 2.2 Resources of the MZES and resource policy
• 2.3 Organization of Research and Project Types

• 2.3.1 Main Structure
• 2.3.2 Departments
• 2.3.3 Research Areas and Core Projects
• 2.3.4 Supplementary Projects
• 2.3.5 Associated Projects
• 2.3.6 Organizational Features of the Projects

• 2.4 The MZES Infrastructure

• 2.4.1 Research Archive Eurodata
• 2.4.2 Information on European Political Parties and Elections
• 2.4.3 Library
• 2.4.4 Computer Facilities
   

• 3. Department A: The European Societies and their Integration

• Participation of Mannheim researchers in EU Network of Excellence EQUALSOC
• A1: Changing Labour Relations and Welfare States in Europe (Bernhard Ebbinghaus)

• 1.1 Varieties of Social Governance: The Role of Social Partners in Pension Insurance and Labour Market Administration
• 1.2 Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe: The Varying Scope for Participatory and Social Rights
• 1.3 Challenges to Membership Organizations: European Trade Unions in Comparison
• 1.4 The Acceptance of the Welfare State
• 1.5 Quality of Life of Public Servants in International Comparison

• A2: Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification in Europe (Markus Gangl)

• 2.1 Network of Excellence “Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion” (EQUALSOC)
• 2.2 Social Selectivity in Tertiary Education and Labour Market and Stratification Outcomes
• 2.3 Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
• 2.4 Human Capital Effects of the Welfare State: Institutional Resources, Work Histories and Social Inequality (HCE)
• 2.5 Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Social Stratification
• 2.6 European Labour Force
• 2.7 The Development of a European Socio-economic Classification
• 2.8 Social Mobility in a Disaggregated Class Context: a Comparative Analysis of the Influence of Occupational Structuration on Mobility Regimes
• 2.9 Women’s Labour Market Participation and Sex-specific Occupational Segregation in Europe
• 2.10 Social inequality in educational careers of young adults in Europe

• A3: Family, Education, and Ethnicity in Europe (Josef Brüderl)

• 3.1 The Pluralisation of Living Arrangements and Family Forms: Fertility and Employment
• 3.2 Panel Study on Family Dynamics
• 3.3 Social Embeddedness and Partnership Relations
• 3.4 Educational Aspirations and Reference Groups
• 3.5 Preschool Education and Educational Careers among Migrant Children
• 3.6 Educational Decisions in Immigrant Families
• 3.7 Labour Market Integration: Aussiedler and Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany and Israel
• 3.8 The East European Population since 1850
   

• 4 Department B: European Political Systems and their Integration

• MZES participation in CONNEX
• B1: Democracy and Citizenship (Jan van Deth)

• 1.1 Welfare through Organisations: A Comparative Analysis of British and German Associational Life
• 1.2 Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy: Private Networks for Public Action
• 1.3 Learning to Live Democracy (LLD)
• 1.4 European Identity and Young People’s Participation in School and Local (Social) Contexts
• 1.5 Parliaments, Representative Government and New Electronic Media Environments: An International Comparison2
• 1.6 A Unified Model of Voting in Different Institutional Contexts
• 1.7 Expectation, Formation and Electoral Decision-Making
• 1.8 European Social Survey
• 1.9 Interactive Mechanism of Mixed-Member Electoral Systems with Two Ballots
• 1.10 Migrants as Political Actors

• B2: Democracy, Parties and Parliaments (Wolfgang C. Müller)

• 2.1 Parliamentary Rules and Institutional Design
• 2.2 Europe in National Parliaments
• 2.3 Government Formation as an Optimal Combination of the Office- and Policy-Motivation of Parties
• 2.4 Coalition Conflict and Intra-Party Politics
• 2.5 Parties and Democracy in the European Union: Euro-Parties as New Democratic Intermediaries?
• 2.6 Euro-Parties and the Politics of New Member States
• 2.7 The Left-Right Ideology: Its Meaning across Countries and over Time
• 2.8 Integrated and United: A Quest for a Citizenship in an Ever Closer Europe (IntUne)
• 2.9 Personal Campaign Strategies and Political Representation
• 2.10 Ideology and Activism of Green Party Members in Western Europe
• 2.11 Comparative Analysis of Party Platforms for the European Election (The Euromanifestos Project)
• 2.12 New ICTs and the Innovation Capacity of Political and Commercial Organisations

• B3: Democracy and Multi-Level Governance (Beate Kohler-Koch)

• 3.1 Network of Excellence on "Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-level Europe" (CONNEX)
• 3.2 Internet Connected EU Research (IConnectEU)
• 3.3 Democratic Legitimacy via Civil Society Involvement? The Role of the European Commission
• 3.4 Local Europe: Impact of EU Governance on Local Civil Society
• 3.5 The European Intermediary System
• 3.6 State - Society Relations in European Trade Policy: The Civil Society Dialogue of the European Commission
• 3.7 The Prospects for EU Democracy After Eastern Enlargement
• 3.8 Party group cohesion in the European Parliament
• 3.9 Contamination Effects in Multi-Level Systems of Governance
• 3.10 Constitutional Politics in the European Union: Parliamentarization and the Institutionalization of Human Rights
• 3.11 The European Commission: Controlled Agent or Uncontrolled Bureaucracy?
• 3.12 The European Union in International Trade Governance (EU RTN: “The Dynamics and Obstacles of European Governance”)
• 3.13 Governance in International Trade: Judicialisation and Positive Integration in the WTO
• 3.14 Flexibility and Stability of International Negotiation Systems
• 3.15 Intergovernmental Negotiations. Comparative Dynamic Simulations
• 3.16 The Importance of Regional Networks for the Success of EU Rural Development Programmes
• 3.17 Institutional Structures of European Health Care Systems: An Institutional-Economic Typology
• 3.18 Confronting memories in the Process of European Integration

• B4: Democracy and Conflict Regulation (Egbert Jahn)

• 4.1 Authoritarian Integration or Democratic Co-operation? The Caucasus between Brussels and Moscow
• 4.2 International Support for Democratization Processes in Central and Eastern Europe: The NGO Sector
• 4.3 European and Other International Peacebuilding Activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo

• Associated Projects

• B-A1: The Impact of the Comintern on the Western European Party System
• B-A2: Cooperation with the Institute for European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: The European Model and the World
   

• Extensions of the Research Programme from September 2006