The Political Economy of Development research area will host a joint WZB-Columbia University workshop to present and discuss ongoing research, completed research, and research designs. Presentations by members of the Institutions and Political Inequality research unit and doctoral students at Columbia will include work on gender empowerment in Uganda, bureaucratic organization in Sierra Leone, gender-based violence in Congo, community policing in Papua New Guinea. The workshop takes the form of small group focused discussions on research and will generally not include presentations.
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After three introductory sessions this colloquium discussed work in progress by leading contemporary scholars of global andcomparative public law, who discussed their work in person with participants.
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The first LEEPS oTree Hackathon 2017 @ WZB took place at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), October 26-29, 2017.
Ohne die Zivilgesellschaft können viele Probleme in der Gesellschaft nicht bewältigt werden. Umso wichtiger ist die Erforschung ihrer Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen, ihres Selbstverständnisses und ihres Wandels. Das neue Zentrum für Zivilgesellschaftsforschung wird sich diesen Forschungsaufgaben widmen. Am 27. November 2017 um 17 Uhr wird das Zentrum im Rahmen einer feierlichen Veranstaltung am WZB eröffnet.
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The short project examines the situation of trade unions in the South-Eastern European automotive supplier industry. It investigates in particular the organizing concepts of the existing trade union federations and the evolution of new plant-level trade union organizations. The aim is to identify levers and concepts to strengthen the presence and influence of trade unions in the automotive supplier industry.
The project is realized in cooperation with Monika Martiskova (Slovakia), Tibor Meszmann (Serbia) and Stefan Guga (Romania).