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MZES Annual Report 2019 2019 Annual Report MZES Universität Mannheim 68131 Mannheim Phone: +49 621 / 181 28 68 Fax: +49 621 / 181 28 66 Email: [email protected] MZES Annual Report 2019 MZES Annual Report 2019 MZES Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung MZES Annual Report 2019 Annual Report 2019 This report was published by the MZES Mannheim 2020 Executive Board (Marc Debus, Henning Hillmann, Harald Schoen), which carries full editorial responsibility. The Board was supported by the MZES project directors, researchers, and infrastructure staff. Mannheimer Zentrum Design: BAR PACIFICO/ für Europäische Sozialforschung Universität Mannheim Etienne Girardet & Fabian Hickethier 68131 Mannheim Development, layout and editing: Phone: +49 621 / 181 28 68 Julian Bernauer, Philipp Heldmann, Fax: +49 621 / 181 28 66 Nikolaus Hollermeier, Christian Melbeck, Email: [email protected] BAR PACIFICO/ www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de Photos: Nikolaus Hollermeier (10), Hannah Laumann (1) Contents Introduction 5 Research Activities ___________________________________________________________ 5 Personnel Development _______________________________________________________ 9 Further Development of the MZES Research Programme ____________________________ 10 Outlook and Acknowledgements ________________________________________________ 12 List of Projects ______________________________________________________________ 14 The MZES—an Overview 17 Mission ___________________________________________________________________ 17 Organisation _______________________________________________________________ 17 Governance ________________________________________________________________ 18 Projects, the Research Programme, and Research Funding __________________________ 19 Researchers _______________________________________________________________ 19 Supporting Research: the Centre’s Infrastructure and Administration ____________________ 20 Department A: European Societies and their Integration 21 Research Area A1: Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States __________________________________________________________ 21 Research Area A 2: Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities ________________________________________________________________ 28 Research Area A3: Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities ___ 37 Projects from the Previous Research Programme Department A _______________________ 49 Associated Projects Department A ______________________________________________ 50 Department B: European Political Systems and their Integration 51 Research Area B1: Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens ___________________________________________________________________ 51 Research Area B2: Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions ____________ 60 Research Area B3: Democratic Multilevel Governance and Europeanization ______________ 68 Associated Projects Department B ______________________________________________ 77 Appendix 79 1 Summary Statistics _______________________________________________________ 80 2 Documentation __________________________________________________________ 85 3 Publications and Other Output _____________________________________________ 114 Research Activities /5 Introduction Since its foundation in 1989, the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) has evolved into an internationally leading interdisciplinary research institute for European socie- ties and politics. This annual report provides an overview of the activities at the MZES in 2019. The MZES is devoted to the analysis of European societies and European political systems. As a rule, research at the MZES comes in the form of externally funded projects, which are organized in two research departments (A and B), each consisting of three more specific research areas. A table at the end of this introduction gives an overview of all projects that were in preparation, ongoing, or completed in 2019. The second part (yellow pages) of this report provides basic infor- mation about the structure of the MZES. The main part (white pages) gives details of the research departments, the research areas, and the individual projects that were in preparation, ongoing, or completed in 2019. The appendix (grey pages) contains statistics and facts about the structure, activities, performance, and output of the institute. This introduction (blue pages) outlines some of its major developments and achievements in 2019 and outlines perspectives for future research at the MZES. Research Activities In the course of 2019, MZES researchers worked on altogether 59 projects—which is almost the same number as in 2018 (57). Three projects were completed in 2019 (as compared to six in 2018), and 55 projects were still active at the end of the year (compared to 51 at the end of the previous year; see appendix 1.1). Another 20 projects were in a preparatory stage (the same as last year), with many of them benefitting from MZES seed funding to develop proposals for ex- Research Projects ternal funding. The projects were distributed almost evenly across the departments. While these figures alone suggest a promising development in the coming years, it is all the more gratifying Thereof that 8 projects were successful in attracting external funding during 2019, almost the same as in 28 in Dept. A and 2017 (7) and only three less than in 2018. Five of these projects belong to Department A, three to 55 27 in Dept. B Department B. Consequently, almost two out of three active projects (35 out of 55) in total were Active Projects externally funded at the end of the reporting period. at the End of 2019 In Department A, the largest grant was awarded to Frank Kalter and Irena Kogan for their project (see appendix 1.1) “Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)”. Within the scope of its long-term funding programme, the German Research Foundation (DFG) provided the follow-up project with another 1,386,000 euros. Since 2009, a group of researchers has 6/ Introduction examined the social integration of children of immigrants in four European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). The main tool of this investigation is a large- scale longitudinal survey. There have been seven waves of data collection in Germany so far. Furthermore, the DFG awarded a grant of 494,000 euros to Lars Leszczensky for a cooperation project with Yossi Shavit from Tel Aviv University and Uri Shwed from Ben Gurion University, Je- rusalem. This project looks at the boundaries between Arab and Jewish students in Israel, which are reflected in social relations and mutual attitudes, lifestyles, and identification, and asks how school factors shape these boundaries. The required data is collected in a longitudinal survey among Arab and Jewish students attending different schools in Israel. The analysis aims to disen- tangle the various dimensions of boundaries between the groups, follow their development over time (considering both students’ age and tenure in a school), and look at differences between schools with regard to their type and ethnic composition. In a later stage, this might serve as a basis for comparisons with European countries. In Department B, the largest grant went to Marc Debus for his project “Where Is My Party? De- terminants of Voter Agreement about the Ideological Positions of Political Parties” in cooperation with Zeynep Somer-Topcu from the University of Texas at Austin and Margit Tavits from Wash- ington University in St. Louis. The DFG provided 467,000 euros for this follow-up project. In the first funding phase, the question was why voters understand the policy positions of some parties more easily than those of others. In the second funding phase, the focus is on the period after the election and on how policy positions in campaigns correspond to those in the first two years after elections. The project examines the reasons for parties to shift their positions after an election and voters’ reactions to such shifts in ten European countries. The main sources of information for this analysis are party media campaigns, party press releases, and results from opinion polls and subnational elections. Another long-standing project that received new funding in 2019 was the European Election Study. The Brexit debate has certainly increased the interest in the European elections. This is one reason why the Volkswagen Foundation decided to fund a cross-European post-election survey with 190,000 euros to find out more about the reasons for the election decisions. Including the other successful projects, the total sum of external funding received in 2019 amounts to more than 3.2 million euros. This is on a par with the annual average since 2001 and a slight increase compared to 2018 (3.1 million euros). The newly acquired grants add up to more than 61 million euros in this period. Two phenomena are known to have shaped the development of the MZES grant income since the early 2000s (see appendix 1.2): an overall increase and considerable fluctuation. Both are Research Activities /7 at least partly due to the fact that the MZES plays a significant role in a far-reaching develop- ment: funding agencies have increasingly supported national and international large-scale and long-term infrastructural projects in the social sciences. These do not only cater to the research interests of a small number of principal investigators
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