The Differentiation of Policy Fields: Economic-Political Decision-Making in German Territories and States in the 18th and 19th Centuries (B06)

• Subject Area: Economic and Social History
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 252080619

In modern societies, political decision-making takes place within the framework of policy fields, which over time develop in policy cycles. This project analyses the emergence of political fields/ policies in Germany during the late eighteenth and the first two thirds of the nineteenth centuries. On the one hand, it synthesizes the rise of policy fields and the development of single economic policies; on the other hand it provides a case study of state infrastructure (road construction) policies.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1150: Cultures of Decision-Making
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Ulrich Pfister