Social movement studies and international relations have rarely crossed one another’s paths. Social movements have been considered as deeply rooted at the national level, while international relations have confined itself mainly to the arena of nation-states. Recently, however, shifts in both fields have favored more intense interactions. First of all, social movement studies have started to address global movements, their determinants and characteristics.
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Frank Brettschneider, Oskar Niedermayer, and Bernhard Weßels (eds.)
Die Bundestagswahl 2005
Analysen des Wahlkampfes und der Wahlergebnisse
Reihe: Veröffentlichung des Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen" der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), vol. 12
Manuela Ludwig
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Across many advanced democracies – albeit to varying extents and in different forms – we observe a growing distance between the positions taken by political elites, and those of mass publics and electorates. This elite-mass divide has crystallized in a limited number of issue areas, which are often related to globalization, in its political, socio-cultural, and economic forms.
The Project for Documentation and Preparation of the German Life History Study (GLHS) at the WZB is entrusted with the tasks of documenting the final study of the GHLS on “Work, Home, and Family in the Mobile Society” (LV-Panel 71), documenting literature using GHLS data and backing up survey data and material. Further it aims to establish a website providing information on other research projects using GHLS data and relevant literature. It is also planned to create an overall information system which is based on the GHLS.