Welcome to the Collaborative Research Center SFB 884
"Political Economy of Reforms"
Our society faces great economic and social challenges. There is widespread consensus that reforms are necessary to cope with these challenges. Yet, we experience that reform initiatives are frequently delayed, compromised, or fail altogether. The goal of this multidisciplinary SFB 884 is to provide scientific insights into success and failure of reforms, determined by competing interests (Group A), contexts (Group B) and the political process of reform-making (Group C). As the core infrastructure, a data center will collect new data on these three dimensions. The SFB 884 brings together more than 20 senior and junior researchers from economics, political science, sociology and statistics. Their joint interest is to advance the theoretical and empirical foundations of quantitative research on societal decision-making in general, and the understanding of reform-making in particular.
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Last Update: 28.09.2010
News
Next Monday (30.01.2012) SFB Seminar Series Collectivist Hierarchies and Endogenous Public Goods: A Political-Economic Theory of Russian Orthodoxy
Doctoral Researchers awarded for best paper
Three Doctoral Candidates of the SFB 884, Markus Baumann, Matthias Haber, and Christian Wälthermann have been awarded for their paper on "Directive Communication? The Informational Interplay of Parliamentary Actors". The Duncan Black Award for best paper in public choice and political economy is awarded biannually at the conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
Dr. Elisabeth Schulte and Dr. Nikoleta Yordanova, Fellows at the SFB 884, are organizing a workshop on the "Political Economy of Reforms" on December 9-10. The workshop is aimed at promoting interdisciplinary research on political reforms. It is open for participation to all members of the University of Mannheim.
The Collaborative Research Center 884 has launched its Visiting Scholar Program. The program intends to intensify the relationship with distinguished researchers from around the world (post-doc, junior and senior faculty). The Center offers a Short term program of up to one week and a long term program of up to four weeks.
