SFB 1342:  Global Dynamics of Social Policy

• Subject Area: Social and Behavioural Sciences ; Humanities ; Geosciences ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: since 2018
• Website: Homepage
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 374666841

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A05 - When Western Education Standards Meet Cultural Spheres. Effects on Human Well-being, Polarization of Attitudes, and Social Cohesion (Project Heads Martens, Kerstin ;  Windzio, Michael )
• A06 - Work-family Policies: Socioeconomic Outcomes and Policy Learning (Project Heads Blum, Sonja ;  Drobnic, Ph.D., Sonja ;  Huinink, Johannes ;  Son, Keonhi )
• A07 - New Politics of the Ageing Welfare State? Comparing Political Outcomes and Policy Feedback of Long-term Care Policies (Project Heads Fischer, Johanna ;  Leiber, Simone ;  Rothgang, Heinz )
• A08 - Social Policy and Global Welfare: How National Social Protection Regimes Shape International Cooperation (Project Head Genschel, Philipp )
• A09 - Worlds of Welfare Across the Globe. Origins and Outcomes (Project Heads Obinger, Herbert ;  Schmitt, Carina )
• A10 - Causal Impacts of Pension Reforms on Socioeconomic and Political Outcomes (Project Head Fehrler, Sebastian )
• B04 - Immigrant Social Rights—How Inclusion and Exclusion Shape Migrants’ Life Chances and Lived Experiences (Project Heads Römer, Friederike ;  Schmidt, Susanne K. ;  Schulz, Wiebke )
• B05 - Protection Against Impoverishment and Unemployment Risks? Outcomes of Dualized Welfare Reform in China (Project Heads ten Brink, Tobias ;  Liu, Tao ;  Müller, Armin )
• B06 - Path Dependencies and Critical Junctures. The Interdependence of Social Policy Outcomes in the Post-Soviet Region (Project Head Pleines, Heiko )
• B13 - Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa (Project Heads Haunss, Sebastian ;  Hunger, Sophia )
• B14 - Socially Motivated Reasoning in Social Policy Evaluation: Studying the Causal Effects of Social Policies on Citizens’ Political Attitudes and Behavior (Project Heads Berens, Sarah ;  Tepe, Markus ;  Wegner, Eva )
• B15 - Under Global Shock: Outcomes of Different Social Protections Programs in Britain, Chile, and Germany, 1970–2000 (Project Heads González de Reufels, Delia ;  Torp, Cornelius )
• INF - Consolidating WeSIS: User Experience, Research Data Management, and CSS Methods (Project Heads Breiter, Andreas ;  Hunger, Sophia ;  Mossig, Ivo )
• Z - Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre (Project Heads Obinger, Herbert ;  Tepe, Markus )

Completed projects

• A01 - Measuring global social policy dynamics and cross-national interdependencies in global perspective—Co-Creating the Global Welfare State Information System (WeSIS) (Project Heads Breiter, Andreas ;  Mossig, Ivo ;  Schmitt, Carina )
• A02 - Global Development Dynamics and Determinants of Coverage and Generosity in Work-Injury Compensation, Unemployment, and Old-Age Pension Insurance (Project Heads Breznau, Ph.D., Nate ;  Fehrler, Sebastian ;  Obinger, Herbert ;  Scherger, Simone ;  Schmitt, Carina ;  Seelkopf, Laura )
• A03 - Worlds of Labor: Coverage and Generosity of Employment Law (Project Heads Dingeldey, Irene ;  Mückenberger, Ulrich )
• A04 - Global Developments in Health Systems (Project Heads Frisina Doetter, Lorraine ;  Haunss, Sebastian ;  Rothgang, Heinz )
• B01 - Mechanisms of Social Policy Diffusion: Ideational Dynamics of Inclusion and the Political Legitimation of Beneficiary Groups (Project Heads González de Reufels, Delia ;  Kuhlmann, Johanna ;  Nullmeier, Frank ;  Schlichte, Klaus )
• B02 - Emergence, expansion, and transformation of the welfare state in the Cono Sur in exchange with Southern Europe (1850-1900) (Project Head González de Reufels, Delia )
• B03 - International complementarities in the development of the welfare state: The transatlantic sphere (1870-2020) (Project Heads Berens, Sarah ;  Manow, Philip )
• B07 - Transnational service provision in long term care services in Western and Eastern Europe (Project Heads Gottschall, Karin ;  Rothgang, Heinz )
• B08 - Transformation of health care systems in Central and Eastern Europe (Project Heads Cacace, Mirella ;  Kaminska, Monika Ewa )
• B09 - Social Policy in Rural Areas of Africa (Project Heads Karadag, Roy ;  Schlichte, Klaus ;  Veit, Alex )
• B10 - Armed Conflict and Dynamics of Social Policy (Project Heads Obinger, Herbert ;  Schmitt, Carina )
• B11 - Protectionism and Social Policy in the Americas, 1890-2020 (Project Heads González de Reufels, Delia ;  Torp, Cornelius )
• B12 - Crisis Management by International Organizations during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Project Heads Kaasch, Alexandra ;  Kaminska, Monika Ewa ;  Martens, Kerstin )

• Applicant Institution: Universität Bremen
• Participating University: Constructor University Bremen; Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg; Philipps-Universität Marburg; Universität Bielefeld; Universität Duisburg-Essen; Universität Mannheim
• Participating Institution: Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung DeZIM e.V.; Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen
• Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Herbert Obinger, until 12/2025; Professor Dr. Markus Tepe, since 1/2026