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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

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