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 interdisciplinary 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 40 senior and junior researchers
from economics, political science, sociology, statistics and computer science. 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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