MZES Annual Report 2006
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Annual Report 2006 Annual Report 2006 Mannheim 2007 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 Wolfgang C. Müller, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Franz Urban Pappi, with the support of the research area coordinators and the department secretaries Layout: Christian Melbeck Editing: Sibylle Eberle, Reinhart Schneider Contents 1 Director's Annual Report 2006.......................................................................................... 3 1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 3 1.2 Organisation of the MZES and its major research areas................................. 4 1.3 Personnel development............................................................................................. 8 1.4 Other resources and project grants.....................................................................11 1.5 The MZES infrastructure.........................................................................................14 1.6 Cooperation and exchange....................................................................................15 1.7 The MZES – a place for young scholars .............................................................18 1.8 Publications and rewards.......................................................................................20 1.9 Other Professional Activities.................................................................................23 1.10 Changing Places........................................................................................................23 2 Department A: European Societies and their Integration......................................25 Research Area A1: Changing Labour Relations and Welfare States in Europe ....25 Research Area A2: Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification in Europe .......................................................................................................................................31 Research Area A3: Family, Education, and Ethnicity in Europe................................40 Associated Projects Department A....................................................................................47 3 Department B: European Political Systems and their Integration ......................48 Research Area B1: Democracy and Citizenship.............................................................48 Research Area B2: Democracy, Parties and Parliaments ............................................54 Research Area B3: Democracy and Multi-Level Governance ....................................63 Research Area B4: Democracy and Conflict Regulation.............................................77 Associated Projects Department B....................................................................................80 4 Infrastructure......................................................................................................................... 83 Research Archive Eurodata ................................................................................................. 83 Library ....................................................................................................................................... 90 Parties and Elections in Europe ......................................................................................... 92 Computer Department.......................................................................................................... 93 5 Appendix.................................................................................................................................. 96 5.1 MZES staff.................................................................................................................. 96 5.2 Project funding .......................................................................................................104 5.3 Library statistics 2006 ..........................................................................................110 5.4 MZES Cooperation Partners................................................................................114 5.5 Visiting professors / scholars ..............................................................................123 5.6 Lectures, conferences and workshops..............................................................125 5.7 Publications 2006..................................................................................................133 5.8 Teaching of MZES staff ........................................................................................152 Since February 2005 the EXECUTIVE BOARD of MZES includes: Director: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang C. Müller Head of Department A: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus Head of Department B: Prof. Dr. Beate Kohler-Koch (until Sept. 2006) Prof. Dr. Franz Urban Pappi (from Sept. 2006) Managing Director: Dr. Reinhart Schneider Members of the SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD: Prof. Dr. Stefano Bartolini, Bologna Professor Dr. Richard Breen, Oxford Prof. Dr. Stein Kuhnle, Bergen and Berlin Prof. Dr. M. Rainer Lepsius, Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Gary Marks, Chapel Hill and Amsterdam 3 1 Director's Annual Report 2006 1.1 Introduction The Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) is an interdiscipli- nary research institute of the University of Mannheim. It is dedicated to the study of the social and political development of Europe. The MZES focuses its 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 the MZES has a unique position in the landscape of German social science research institutes. Since its foundation, the MZES has placed itself among the lead- ing research centres specializing on Europe. Thanks to the efforts of European and American scholars, there has been steady progress in understanding the dynamics and consequences of the unfolding process of European integration since its inception. Yet, the very dynamics of this process have made this task rather greater than smaller and have added even more signifi- cance to the research agenda of the MZES. To list just a few questions which remain to be answered: What are promising prospects and ways of integration and what ob- stacles 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 the ongoing changes? We also need to improve our theoretical grip of the general social and political processes and mechanisms that underlie all social and political phenomena and therefore are critical for understand- ing the problems of European integration. The present and future processes of Euro- pean Union enlargement include countries with historical legacies, political tradi- tions, economic conditions, social structures and cultural identities very different from those of the “old” member states. The resulting problems are challenges not only for political decision-makers but also for social science research. As a conse- quence of the fundamental changes Europe has been undergoing since the late 1980s, 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. The MZES is making a major effort to provide such knowledge and to achieve this through both its own research and cooperation with other centres and individual researchers in Europe and elsewhere. This Annual Report gives an overview on research and related activities at the MZES in 2006. Provided that the centre’s three-year research programme had been worked out and accepted by the MZES bodies in 2005, this year was mainly devoted to get the new projects started. As this report will show, this has been done with considerable success. Yet, having just acquired the means for carrying out the new projects from external funding agencies or being in the process of doing so also implies that not much remains to be added to the Sixth Research Programme 2005– 2008 and the Annual Report 2005 regarding the specific research projects that are 4 Director's Annual Report described in these publications. This report therefore does not include details on the research projects initially included in the 2005–2008 Research Programme. Rather it provides a general account on the MZES’ development, reports on projects that have been completed, and introduces briefly the research projects that were added to the Research Programme in 2006. This chapter concentrates on the basic characteristics and general developments of the Centre: It provides an overview of the organisation of the MZES and its major research areas; it presents the development of the resources available at the MZES and acquired through the MZES; and it describes research co-operations and various other significant events that occurred at the Centre in 2006. Subsequent chapters focus on the research achievements in the research departments and on the devel- opments of the Centre’s infrastructure. The appendix lists the publications that have resulted from MZES projects and provides an overview of other activities in 2006. 1.2 Organisation of the MZES and its major research areas As the organisational chart (Figure 1) shows,