CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy

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The Long Shadow of American Protectionism

In a new article in "The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era", Fritz Kusch of project B11 "Protectionism and Social Policy in the Americas" explores how American industrialists of the late nineteenth century attempted to sway industrial workers to their side in favor of tariff protectionism.

Project A07 organises conference and workshop on "Long-Term Care Policies in East Asia and Europe" in Taipei

In collaboration with the Taiwanese Society for Care Research, the CRC Project A07 on the Global Dynamics of Long-Term Care Policies conducted a conference and a research workshop in Taipei, Taiwan on March 26-28, 2025. The event focused on comparing long-term care policies across three East Asian and three European countries.

DLF-Kultur interview: What role does Turkey play in the EU?

In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Dr. Roy Karadag, project director of B09 "Social Policy in Rural Areas of Africa" discusses why criticism of Turkish President Erdoğan from within the European Union remains so cautious. The episode, titled "Kaum Kritik – welche Rolle spielt die Türkei in der EU?", explores Turkey’s role in European politics.

Scientific Advisory Board provides valuable advice on the DFG proposal

This year's meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" took place as an online meeting on 25 March 2025. The main item on the agenda was the current status of the application to the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the continuation of the CRC in a third phase from 2026 to 2029.

Sooahn Meier successfully defends her PhD thesis with summa cum laude

Sooahn Meier, doctoral researcher in the team of the B12 "Crisis Management in the COVID-19 Pandemic by International Organisations" wrote a cumulative dissertation titled "Institutional Changes in International Organizations: The Case of the OECD as a Global Health Actor". Sooahn obtained her PhD ("Dr. rer. pol") from the Faculty of Social Science (FB08) with a "summa cum laude".

The Impact of Employment Regulations on Labour Market Inequality and Segmentation

As part of her work in project A03 "Worlds of Labour: Coverage and Generosity of Employment Law", Andrea Schäfer participated in the international conference "Work, Migration and Society" at the University of Madras in India from 20 to 21 February, 2025.

wesis.org: Early Access to New Information System with Data on Global Dynamics of Social Policy

With WeSIS, the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" at the University of Bremen has published an interactive web-based information system. It offers comprehensive data to describe and explain social policy worldwide.

14. International NordWel Summer School in Odense

The 14th NordWel Summer School "State, Society & Citizen - Cross-Disciplinary and Global Perspectives on Welfare State Development" takes place at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense from 18 to 22 August 2025. Here you will find the Call for Papers and further information about the Summer School.

Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesia

As the last event of the Jour Fixe lecture series in the winter semester 2024/25, Prof. Krisztina Kis-Katos from the University of Göttingen was our guest at the CRC 1342 on 29.01.2025. In her talk "Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesia", she presented the effects of the "Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)" programme and discussed the interpretations of the extensive data with the participants not only from an economic but also from a social science perspective.

Research on social policy outcomes under Chinese authoritarianism

The B05 project "Inclusion and Benefit Dynamics in the Chinese Welfare Regime" successfully completed another round of field research in China, furthering collaboration with Chinese colleagues on future social policy research.

How culture shapes the diffusion of populism. New article in American Journal of Political Science

Dr. Nils Düpont from INF-project has published a new article together with co-authors Nina Wiesehomeier and Saskia Ruth-Lovell on the diffusion of populism in the American Journal of Political Science. They present the results of analyzing diffusion effects among 923 parties in 67 countries from 1970 to 2018.

New Website for the High-Profile Area Social Sciences

As one of the five key scientific areas that largely define the research profile of the University of Bremen, the social science high-profile area "Social Change, Social Policy and the State" has set up its own new website with the start of 2025. The CRC 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" is part of this alliance.

International Migrants Day

Dr. Gulnaz Isabekova-Landau is a postdoctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre project B06 "Resource Boom and Social Policy in Authoritarian Regimes. A Means of Securing Regime Stability?", which explores social policies in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia. She is currently in Sri Lanka with the Centre for Women's Research (CENWOR) to mark today's International Migrants Day.

Research trip to Argentina allows investigation of social policy in the context of protectionism and nation state consolidation

Dominik Gall, doctoral researcher in project B11 of the CRC 1342, is working on the history of Argentine social policy from 1880-1949 and its links to the sugar industry in Jujuy from a global historical perspective. In October and November 2024, he not only visited the capital Buenos Aires for research purposes, but also travelled to Jujuy, the northernmost province of Argentina. The aim of the trip was to identify, localise and retrieve relevant sources that shed light on the nexus of social policy, protectionism and nation-state consolidation.

Social Policy in Autocratizing Context. Inclusionary and Exclusionary Processes

As the last event of our Jour Fixe series in 2024, Prof. Dorottya Szikra from the Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences (Budapest, Hungary) held a lecture on "Social Policy in Autocratizing Context. Inclusionary and Exclusionary Processes" on December 11. Her presentation and the subsequent discussion with over 20 colleagues focussed on social policy reforms in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, and India.

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