Publications - MPIfG

University Appointments
Dr. Helmut Voelzkow, who had been with the MPIfG since 1996, was appointed to
a professorship in sociology at the University of Osnabrück beginning in October
2002. In July of the same year, Dr. Philipp Genschel, who had started at the MPIfG
as a doctoral student, was appointed a professor of political science at the new
International University Bremen. Dr. Bernhard Kittel and Bastiaan van Apeldoorn,
both postdocs at the Institute, moved on to junior university appointments,
the former to the University of Bremen and the latter to the Free University
of Amsterdam.
Habilitationen
During the period of reporting, three MPIfG researchers received their second
degree, the Habilitation, and with it the title of Privatdozent, all in political science:
Philipp Genschel at the University of Konstanz, with a thesis on Steuerharmonisierung
und Steuerwettbewerb in Europa: Die Steuerpolitik der Europäischen
Union, Susanne Lütz at the FernUniversität Hagen (Der Staat und die Globalisierung
von Finanzmärkten: Regulative Politik in Deutschland, Großbritannien und
den USA), and Philip Manow, also at Konstanz (Social Protection, Capitalist Production:
The Bismarckian Welfare State and the German Political Economy from the
1880s to the 1990s). At the time of writing, three more Habilitationsschriften are
under review at different universities, and one is about to be completed within a
few months.
Doctoral Degrees
No fewer than eleven doctoral students received their degrees in 1999–2002, all at
different universities and with excellent marks. Ten of them started working on
their dissertations after January 1999. Average time of completion for doctoral
dissertations at the MPIfG is now at 37 months. Four of our doctoral students
continued after graduation as members of the MPIfG research staff.
The Years 1999–2002
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