Annual Report 2004 Annual Report 2004 Mannheim 2005 Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) Universität Mannheim D-68161 Mannheim Phone ++49 (0)621-181 2868 Fax ++49 (0)621-181 2866 E-mail [email protected] WWW http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de This report was produced by Walter Müller, Hartmut Esser and Franz Urban Pappi, with the support of the research area coordinators and the department secretaries Layout: Christian Melbeck Editing: Sibylle Eberle, P. Matthew Loveless, Reinhart Schneider Contents 1 Director's Annual Report 2004.......................................................................................... 3 1.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Organisation of MZES and major research areas .................................................. 3 1.3 Evaluation of MZES........................................................................................................ 7 1.4 Personnel Development ................................................................................................ 8 1.5 Other Resources and Project Grants .......................................................................10 1.6 MZES infrastructure.....................................................................................................12 1.7 Cooperation and Exchange........................................................................................13 1.8 MZES – a place for young scholars .........................................................................18 1.9 Publications and Rewards..........................................................................................19 1.10 Other Professional Activities .....................................................................................21 2 Department A: European Societies and their Integration ....................................23 Research Area A1: The Development of Social Structures in European Societies.....................................................................................................................................25 Research Area A2: Social Services and Social Security: The European Welfare States in Comparison.............................................................................................................37 Research Area A3: Migration, Integration and Ethnic Conflicts ...............................39 Research Area A4: Cultural Foundations of the Market Economy and the Welfare State ...........................................................................................................................49 Research Area A5: Family and Social Relations.............................................................53 A6 Supplementary Projects of Department A.................................................................58 3 Department B: European Political Systems and their Integration.....................59 Research Area B1: Engagement, Participation, and Voters’ Behaviour...................63 Research Area B2: Political Parties and Political Linkage...........................................69 Research Area B3: The Election of Parliaments as a Coordination Problem of Parties and Voters..............................................................................................................77 Research Area B4: Governance in Europe........................................................................82 Research Area B5: International Embeddedness of European Governance ...........93 Research Area B6: The Institutionalization of International Negotiations............98 Research Area B7: The Development of a European Regional System................. 104 B8 Associated Projects ....................................................................................................... 109 4 Infrastructure.......................................................................................................................111 Research Archive Eurodata................................................................................................111 Library......................................................................................................................................116 Parties and Elections in Europe........................................................................................120 Computer Department ........................................................................................................121 5 Appendix................................................................................................................................123 5.1 MZES staff....................................................................................................................123 5.2 Project funding ...........................................................................................................131 5.3 Library statistics .........................................................................................................136 5.4 MZES Cooperation Partners....................................................................................140 5.5 Visiting professors / scholars ..................................................................................148 5.6 Lectures, conferences and workshops..................................................................149 5.7 Publications 2004......................................................................................................156 From 2002 to 2004 the EXECUTIVE BOARD of MZES includes: Director: Prof. Dr. Walter Müller Head of Department A: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Esser Head of Department B: Prof. Dr. Franz Urban Pappi Managing Director: Dr. Reinhart Schneider Members of the SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD: Prof. Dr. Stefano Bartolini, Florence Prof. Dr. Robert Erikson, Stockholm Prof. Dr. Stephan Leibfried, Bremen Prof. Dr. M. Rainer Lepsius, Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Johan P. Olsen, Oslo 3 1 Director's Annual Report 2004 1.1 Introduction The Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) is an interdiscipli- nary research institute of the University of Mannheim, dedicated to the study of the social and political development of Europe. It focuses research on European societies and their integration and on the European political systems and their integration, and it attempts to relate these two strands of research. With this emphasis MZES has a unique position in the landscape of German social science research institutes and it is one of the very few research centres in Europe at which research on the changing social and political realities in the European Union is pursued to a similar extent. Scientific knowledge on the dynamics and consequences of the unfolding process of European integration and the repercussions on the single societies in Europe is largely lacking. What are promising prospects and ways of integration and what obstacles stand on its way? What are the implications of European integration for the several levels and areas of governance, for the life of citizens, their political partici- pation and their reactions to these changes? Better knowledge is also needed on the general basic social and political processes and mechanisms that underlie all social and political phenomena and henceforth is indispensable to understand the problems of European integration. The present and future processes of enlargement including countries with different historical legacies, political traditions, economic conditions, social structures and cultural identities further create challenging tasks for research. In hardly any area of similar significance does research lag behind the public needs to such an extent as in the field of European integration. MZES is making a concen- trated effort to improve such knowledge and to achieve this through both its own research and cooperation with other centres. This Annual report gives an overview on research and other work done at MZES in 2004. This chapter concentrates on the Centre and its development at large: It gives an overview of the organisation of MZES and its major research areas; it presents the development of the resources available at MZES and acquired through MZES; and it describes cooperation and various other significant events that occurred at the Cen- tre in 2004. One of the most important is the formal evaluation that the Centre underwent in 2004. Later chapters then focus on the research achievements in the departments and on the work done on the infrastructure. The appendix includes lists of publications and other activities. 1.2 Organisation of MZES and major research areas As the organisational chart shows, the main units of MZES are its two research departments: A European Societies and their Integration; B European Political Sys- tems and their Integration; and MZES Infrastructure. 4 Director's Annual Report 2004 The Departments are directed by their Heads who together with the Director form the Executive Board of MZES. The Executive Board prepares the (three year) Research Programme and takes the major decisions concerning the direction of the Centre. The Director, with the support of the Managing Director, prepares and implements the decisions of other bodies and is the official supervisor of the personnel compensated with MZES resources. The Managing Director primarily oversees the infrastructure and MZES administration. The Executive Board is elected by the Supervisory Board for a three year period in office. The Supervisory Board