(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]
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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
Bahle, Thomas
(1995):
Familienpolitik in Westeuropa. Ursprünge und Wandel im internationalen Vergleich.
Frankfurt/NewYork:
Campus Verlag.
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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.
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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.
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Willekens, Harry
(2003):
Is contemporary western family law historically unique?.
Journal of family history, 28, issue 1, pp. 70-107.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1998):
Family Policy in Germany: Towards a Macro-sociological Frame for Analysis.
EURODATA Newsletter, issue 7, pp. 21-26.
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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.
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Book Chapters
Fix, Birgit
(2003):
Familienpolitik im internationalen Vergleich. Von Europa lernen.
Martin R. Textor
(Ed.)
Online-Familienhandbuch.
München:
Staatsinstitut für Frühpädagogik.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bahle, Thomas
(1998):
Familienarbeit und Typen der Familienpolitik..
Pp. 125-138 in:
Andreas Netzler, Michael Opielka
(Eds.)
Neubewertung der Familienarbeit in der Sozialpolitik.
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MZES Working Papers
Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher, Katherina Fuduli and Beatrix Holzer
(1998):
Developing a family policy database for Europe.
Mannheim
[Arbeitsbereich I; 27]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix and Franz Rothenbacher
(2002):
Family Change and Family Policies: Germany.
Mannheim
[Preprints of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research]
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Rothenbacher, Franz
(1997):
Social Change in Europe and the Impact on Family Structures.
Durban, South Africa
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