PeopleProjectsPublications

Current Projects

Project Group "Civic Engagement"
Head
Dr. sc. Eckhard Priller
Staff
Mareike Alscher, Dr. Dietmar Dathe, Patrick J. Droß, Franziska Paul, Clemens Jakob Poldrack, Nora Waitkus
Duration: 2011-2012
Citizenship in Europe in the 20th century
Duration: 2005 - 2009
The Modern Metropolis: Chicago and Moscow. Social Conflict and Reform around 1900
Staff
Dr. Jan Claas Behrends
Duration: 2005 - 2011
Funding: 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)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Dr. Simon Teune
Duration: since 1993
Funding: WZB
The Transnationalization of Struggles for Recognition – Women and Jews in France, Germany, and Poland in the 20th Century
Staff
Dr. Jan Claas Behrends, Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
Bozena A. Choluj, Zdzislaw Mach, Jacques Ehrenfreund, Slawomir Kapralski
Duration: 2007 - 2010
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung

Completed Projects

Protest survey in the conflict over "Stuttgart 21"
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Dr. Simon Teune, Dr. Britta Baumgarten
Nina Ramid
Duration: 10 2010 - 12 2010
Funding: WZB
Genealogy and Development of Preventive Health-Care in Germany (1918 - 1995)
Staff
Jeannette Zsusza Madarász, Ph.D.
Duration: 2007 - 2010
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
The German labor movement as a protagonist of civil society engagement between 1830 and 1880
Jürgen Schmidt
Duration: 2007 - 2009
Funding: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and WZB
Discoursive decision-making in meetings of the global justice movements on the local, national and transnational level
Christoph Haug
Duration: 2005 - 2009
Funding: Hans Böckler Foundation
Analyse der Berichterstattung zum G8-Protest
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Dr. Simon Teune
Duration: 2007 - 2008
Funding: WZB
Deliberation in protest groups
Mundo Yang
Duration: 2006 - 2008
Funding: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Out of Place: Ethnic Migration, Nation State Formation and Property Regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Israel
Stefan Meyer
Duration: 2006 - 2008
Funding: German - Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society (DEMOS)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Dr. Simon Teune
Mundo Yang
Duration: 2004 - 2008
Funding: 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
Duration: 2003 - 2006
Funding: WZB
Anti-war demonstrators survey
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
Duration: 2003 - 2006
Funding: WZB
Democratic Innovations and New Forms of Governance
Brigitte Geissel
Duration: 2006
Funding: WZB (Tagung: Thyssen Stiftung)
Particularities of net based political communication exemplified by the political discourse on genetically modified foods
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
Ann Zimmermann, Mundo Yang
Duration: until 2005
Funding: Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB)
Forms of Participation between Competition and Synergy - Mobilization or Demobilization through Direct Democracy?
Brigitte Geissel
Duration: 2004 - 2007
Funding: WZB
The German labor movement as a protagonist of civil society engagement between 1830 and 1880
Jürgen Schmidt
Duration: 2003 - 2006
Funding: WZB
Das Engagement von jungen Globalisierungskritikern in Frankreich und Deutschland im Vergleich
Ariane Jossin
Duration: 2000 - 2007
Funding: 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
Duration: 2003 - 2007
Funding: 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
Duration: 2001 - 2007
Funding: PhD program of the WZB
Critical Citizens as a Democratic Resource?
Brigitte Geissel
Duration: 2004-2006
Funding: WZB
Civil Society - Traditions and perspectives. Historical sources on a contemporary concept
Jürgen Schmidt
Duration: 2005 - 2006
Funding: WZB
Hybrid transnational networks - Potential for society’s mobilization and self-organization
Brigitte Geissel
Duration: 2004 - 2005
Funding: WZB
European Civil Society Network (CiSoNet)
Staff
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka, Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
Duration: 2003 - 2005
Funding: EU
Internet - a forum of democratic European public spheres?
Ann Zimmermann
Duration: 2002 - 2005
Funding: 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
Duration: 2002 - 2005
Funding: WZB
Europäisierung nationaler Kommunikationsräume durch horizontale Vernetzung? Grenzüberschreitende Presseschauen in deutschen Zeitungen und Radioprogrammen
Jessica Erbe
Duration: 2003-2005
Funding: FP5 - EU and WZB.
Economic elites between pressure of competition and social responsibility
Staff
Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht
Christian Galonska
Duration: 2002
Funding: BMBF