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Current Projects

Project Group "Civic Engagement"
Dr. sc. Eckhard Priller
Mareike Alscher, Patrick J. Droß, Franziska Paul, Clemens Jakob Poldrack, Nora Waitkus
2011-2012
Citizenship in Europe in the 20th century
2005 - 2009
The Modern Metropolis: Chicago and Moscow. Social Conflict and Reform around 1900
2005 - 2011
WZB, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, GHI Wahsington, GHI Moscow
Documentation and analysis of protest events in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950-1996 (PRODAT project)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Simon Teune
since 1993
WZB
The Transnationalization of Struggles for Recognition – Women and Jews in France, Germany, and Poland in the 20th Century
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Bozena A. Choluj, Zdzislaw Mach, Jacques Ehrenfreund, Slawomir Kapralski
2007 - 2010
Volkswagen Stiftung

Completed Projects

Protest survey in the conflict over "Stuttgart 21"
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Simon Teune, Dr. Britta Baumgarten, Nina Ramid
10 2010 - 12 2010
WZB
Genealogy and Development of Preventive Health-Care in Germany (1918 - 1995)
Jeannette Zsusza Madarász PhD
2007 - 2010
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
The German labor movement as a protagonist of civil society engagement between 1830 and 1880
Jürgen Schmidt
2007 - 2009
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and WZB
Discoursive decision-making in meetings of the global justice movements on the local, national and transnational level
Christoph Haug
2005 - 2009
Hans Böckler Foundation
Analyse der Berichterstattung zum G8-Protest
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Simon Teune
2007 - 2008
WZB
Deliberation in protest groups
Mundo Yang
2006 - 2008
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Out of Place: Ethnic Migration, Nation State Formation and Property Regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Israel
Stefan Meyer
2006 - 2008
German - Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society (DEMOS)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Simon Teune, Mundo Yang
2004 - 2008
EU
The content of European constitution documents: Basic characteristics of the history of the European constitution, from the French Revolution to the Second World War
2003 - 2006
WZB
Anti-war demonstrators survey
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
2003 - 2006
WZB
Democratic Innovations and New Forms of Governance
Brigitte Geissel
2006
WZB (Tagung: Thyssen Stiftung)
Particularities of net based political communication exemplified by the political discourse on genetically modified foods
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Ann Zimmermann, Mundo Yang
until 2005
Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB)
Forms of Participation between Competition and Synergy - Mobilization or Demobilization through Direct Democracy?
Brigitte Geissel
2004 - 2007
WZB
The German labor movement as a protagonist of civil society engagement between 1830 and 1880
Jürgen Schmidt
2003 - 2006
WZB
Das Engagement von jungen Globalisierungskritikern in Frankreich und Deutschland im Vergleich
Ariane Jossin
2000 - 2007
Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2003: „allocataire de recherche“ (staatliches Stipendium, Univ. rennes 1); Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2006: DAAD-Stipendiatin; - December 2007: WZB
Passion for Discussion: A Cultural History of the ‘Better Argument’ in West Germany from the 1940s to the 1970s
Nina Verheyen
2003 - 2007
Dissertation grant from the German National Academic Foundation (since January 2004)
Civil society and protest. The history of the environmental movement in Germany between 1945 and 1980 with the example of Bavaria
Ute Hasenöhrl
2001 - 2007
PhD program of the WZB
Critical Citizens as a Democratic Resource?
Brigitte Geissel
2004-2006
WZB
Civil Society - Traditions and perspectives. Historical sources on a contemporary concept
Jürgen Schmidt
2005 - 2006
WZB
Hybrid transnational networks - Potential for society’s mobilization and self-organization
Brigitte Geissel
2004 - 2005
WZB
European Civil Society Network (CiSoNet)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka, Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
2003 - 2005
EU
Internet - a forum of democratic European public spheres?
Ann Zimmermann
2002 - 2005
Europub, PhD program of the WZB
Direct or indirect representation of interests? Determinants for the strategies interest groups use to influence multilateral trade policies
Sabine Mohr
2002 - 2005
WZB
Europäisierung nationaler Kommunikationsräume durch horizontale Vernetzung? Grenzüberschreitende Presseschauen in deutschen Zeitungen und Radioprogrammen
Jessica Erbe
2003-2005
FP5 - EU and WZB.
Economic elites between pressure of competition and social responsibility
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Christian Galonska
2002
BMBF