Fourth Research Programm 1999 - 2002
Fourth Research Programme
of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
1999 - 2001
Contents
0 Synopsis
1 Structure and Organization of the Institute
1.1 The First Decade
1.2 Work Structure
1.2.1 Main Structure
1.2.2 Departments
1.2.3 Research Areas and Core Projects
1.2.4 Supplementary Projects
1.2.5 Individual Projects (Associated Projects)
1.2.6 Organizational Features of the Projects
1.3 Infrastructure
1.3.1 Computer Facilities
1.3.2 Library
1.3.3 Research Archive EURODATA
1.4 Cooperation and Integration
2 Research Topics and Planning Goals
2.1 Characterization of Research Activities
2.1.1 Subject and Research Issues
2.1.2 Main Characteristics of the Research
2.2 Research Areas
2.3 Main Goals of the Fourth Planning Period
2.4 Evaluation of Activities
3. Research Department A: The European Societies and Their Integration
Research Area 1: The Development of Social Structures in European Societies
Projects in Research Area 1
1.1 Educational Expansion and Social Reproduction in Europe
1.2 A Comparative Analysis of Transitions from Education to Work (CATEWE)
1.3 Socio-Economic Development of Self-Employment in Europe
1.4 The Pluralization of Living Arrangements and Family Forms
Supplementary Projects in Research Area 1:
1a Social Structure, Social Security, and the Social Position of the Public-Service Sector: European Models and National Case Studies
1b Labour Market Processes and Structural Change: Allocation Dynamics and Unemployment in the US, Swedish and West German Labour Markets
1c Career Patterns of Men and Women in a Family Context: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the UK
1d Family Relationships and Social Networks in Modern Societies: A Comparative Examination of Germany and South Korea
1e Theoretical Construction and Empirical Examination of a Lifestyle Typology
Research Area 2: Migration, Integration and Ethnic Conflict
Projects in Research Area 2
2.1 Social Capital and Structural Assimilation
2.2 Participation of Immigrants
2.3 Educational Decisions in Migrant Families
2.4 Ethnic Cleavages and Social Contexts
Supplementary Project in Research Area 2
2a Social Capital and (Chain) Migration
Research Area 3: Family and the Welfare State in Europe
Projects in Research Area 3
3.1 Family Change and Family Policy in Comparative Perspective
3.2 Family and the Welfare State in Europe
Supplementary Projects in Research Area 3
3a Institutional and Organizational Foundations of European Society
3b Gender Inequalities and the Development of Family Law
3c History of Family Law in Western Europe
3d Growth to Limits
Research Area 4: Intermediary Structures and the Welfare State in Europe
Projects in Research Area 4
4.1 Intermediary Structures and the Welfare State: The Churches and the Labour Movement
4.2 The Structure of Social Services: An International Comparison: Local Case Studies in Denmark, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain
Supplementary Projects in Research Area 4
4a Social Services in the Welfare State: A Comparison of Great Britain, France, and Germany
4b Intermediary Structures and the Welfare State: The Consociational Societies in Historical and Comparative Perspective
4c Historical Data Handbook 'Trade Unions in Western Europe up to 1945'
Supplementary Projects in Research Area 3 and 4
The 'Societies of Europe' Series
Research Area 5: Cultural Foundations of the Market Economy and the Welfare State
Projects in Research Area 5
5.1 The Moral Economy of Unemployment I and II
Supplementary Project in Research Area 5
5a The Loss of Social Ties: The End of Solidarity? (Conference Project)
4. Department B: European Political Systems and Their Integration
Research Area 1: Participation and Electoral Decisions
Projects in Research Area 1
1.1 Political Interest, Participation and Affect in Representative Democracies
1.2 Democracy and Active Commitment: An International Comparison of Social and Political Participation
1.3 Targeted Political Socialization
1.4 Political Participation in Central Europe
1.5 Electoral Competition and Decision Making in Multiparty Systems
1.6 Implications of Institutional Parameters for Electoral Decision-Making in Multiparty Systems
1.7 The Application of Innovative Microeconometric Models to Analyse Electoral Behaviour in Multiparty Systems
1.8 European Party Federations: Driving Force of European Integration or Laggard Behind?
1.9 Political Representation and Electoral Behaviour in the European Union (TMR)
1.10 Comparative Analysis of Party Platforms for the European Election
Research Area 2: Governance in Europe
Projects in Research Area 2
2.1 Governance in the European Union
2.2 Europeanization of Interest Intermediation
2.3 Governance in an Expanded Multi-level System
2.4 Institutional Policies: Reasons and Implications of Political Control
2.5 The Significance of Promises and Threats in European Union Negotiations: A Comparative Evaluation of Competing Game-Theoretical Approaches
Supplementary Project in Research Area 2
2a The Europeanization of Interest Intermediation: French Trade Associations in Comparative Perspective
Research Area 3: Development of a European Regional System
Projects in Research Area 3
3.1 Brussels or Moscow: The Foreign Policy Orientation of Belarus, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Ukraine in the Post-Communist Processes of Integration and Transformation
3.2 The Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation vis-à-vis Bulgaria and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Potential for Conflict or Cooperation on the European Periphery?
3.3 The Management of Integration Processes in the CIS and the Whole of Europe as Intended by Russian Political Actors
3.4 How Polish and Czech Political Actors Link Western Integration to Eastern Policies
3.5 The Coupling of International Institutions
Supplementary Project in Research Area 3
3a Strategy Options of International Governance
Research Area 4: Institutionalization of International Negotiation Systems
Projects in Research Area 4
4.1 National Interministerial Co-ordination and International Negotiations:
A Model and Explanation of the Amsterdam Treaty
4.2 Production and Diffusion of Ideas and International Negotiations (PRODI)
Research Area 5: Nation-Building in Europe
Projects in Research Area 5
5.1 Russians in Russia's Neighbouring States as a Subject of Domestic and Foreign Policy: Government Action Between State and Ethnic Nationalism
5.2 International Management of Conflicts of Ethnic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
5.3 Identity and Identity Processes: A European Comparison
Supplementary Projects in Research Area 5
5a The Nationality Policy of Ukraine since 1989 and its Contribution to Ethnic Conflict Regulation
5b The Peaceful Division of Czechoslovakia: Conditions of Cooperative Interstate Management of Conflicts in Czechoslovakia and Subsequently in the Czech and Slovak Republics;Follow-up Project: The Relationship Between the Czech and Slovak Republics After the Dissolution of their Common State
Individual Projects in Department B
1 Yearbook for Research on the History of Communism
2 The Impact of the Comintern on the Western European Party System
3 Legislative Decision Making in Bicameral Systems: A Comparative Analysis
4 International Multicameral Systems