Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

The Max Planck Institute for Social Research is a research institute of social sciences in Cologne. It conducts application open basic research with the aim of empirically based theory of the social and political foundations of modern economies. The focus is on the investigation of the relationships between economic, social and political action. Using primarily an institutional approach, it examines how markets and business organizations are embedded in historical, institutional, political and cultural contexts as they arise and how to change their social contexts. The Institute wants to build a bridge between theory and policy.

Research

The research program is determined by the directors Jens Beckert and Wolfgang Streeck. The Directors are set within one of the Max Planck Society ( MPG) framework for the selection and realization of their research freely and independently. Between forty and fifty researchers, research assistants, graduate students, fellows, guest researchers and project staff are often involved in internationally composed teams of researchers employed. They are involved in research planning and development within the framework of their own projects. The MPIfG does not do contract research.

The MPIfG cooperates with several other comparable institutions, especially with

  • The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence;
  • The Center for European Studies and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University;
  • The Institute for Policy Research and the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University in Evanston;
  • The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and its affiliated institutes, such as the Centre d' Etudes Européennes (CEE ) and the Centre for Sociology of Organisations (CSO );
  • The CEPREMAP (Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications ) in Paris;
  • The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies ( AIAS ).

An advisory council reviewed every two years, the research of the Institute. A board of representatives of government, industry, associations and media to improve the embedding in regional references.

Publications

The Institute 's publication series four out:

  • MPIfG books are monographs aimed at a broad audience.
  • MPIfG Discussion Papers are essays on current projects or visiting scientists, which are usually published later in journals.
  • MPIfG Working Papers contain preliminary research results and discussion papers, which will only be published online. The series was set for the year 2012. Working papers from the MPIfG Discussion Papers published since then exclusively in the series MPIfG.
  • Research reports from the MPIfG inform completed at the institute projects.

Facts and Figures

The MPIfG was founded in 1985 under the leadership of sociologist Renate Mayntz. 1986 Fritz W. Scharpf, was the director at the Social Science Research Center Berlin for Social Research from 1973 to 1984 appointed as the second director of the MPIfG. 1995 Wolfgang Streeck is appointed to the Board after he worked under Scharpf from 1976 to 1988 at the first " International Institute of Management " and later in the focus of research labor market policy. The MPIfG one of the smaller of about 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society, which operates primarily in the natural sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences basic research. The annual budget of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research is currently at 4.3 million euros (2012 ).

The institute has 31 places for scientific and non-scientific service staff, and about 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Additional funding is acquired from the federal government, the EU and other funding organizations and project funds.

The Max Planck Institute for Social Research has a library with about 250,000 titles ( monographs and journal articles ) and 200 journals. Electronic research opportunities in the collections of the Library of the Institute and external literature databases complete the offer.

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