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60 Graduate Training and Teaching
MPIfG Doctoral Program
By the end of 2002 the doctoral program of the MPIfG included thirteen students.
This compares to only five doctoral students on January 1, 1998. In line with
standard MPG practice, contracts for doctoral students are never extended
beyond three years. On average students manage to submit their theses after about
37 months.
Most of the doctoral students at the MPIfG are working or have worked in
close connection to major research projects. Steffen Ganghof, Martin Schludi and
Eric Seils worked with Fritz W. Scharpf on the adjustment of the European welfare
state to internationalization and have written dissertations on selected aspects of
this theme. Martin Höpner, Antje Kurdelbusch, Britta Rehder and Rainer Zugehör
worked with Wolfgang Streeck and Anke Hassel on the impact of internationalization
on industrial relations in large German firms, and Miriam Hartlapp,
Simone Leiber and Oliver Treib are contributing to Gerda Falkner’s project on the
impact of European social policy directives at the level of the member states. Also,
Volker Leib worked with Raymund Werle’s project on the Internet and then went
on to write his dissertation on a related subject. It is MPIfG policy to assign all
doctoral students for day-to-day support and supervision to a three-person committee
including either one of the directors or a senior researcher and project
leader.
Most of the doctoral students in the program are funded by the MPIfG, in part
from funds originally allocated to regular research positions. One student received
the Doktorandenstipendium der Stadt Köln am MPIfG (City of Cologne Doctoral
Fellowship at the MPIfG), which the MPIfG created from funds received from the