Family Change and Family Policy in Comparative Perspective

Project Directors Prof. Dr. Peter Flora, PD Dr. Thomas Bahle Project Staff Dr. Birgit Fix, Katherina Fuduli, Beatrix Holzer, Mathias Maucher, Astrid Pfenning, Dr. Gretchen Wiesehan DFG, MZES-funded 1994 – 2002

Research question/goal:

The project studies family changes and family policies in a long-term comparative view. Results are being published in a series of 5 volumes with 18 country studies and 2 comparative volumes. In addition, a database on family policies in Europe has been developed as a major source for comparative analyses and family policy indicators. The database will be made available to the academic public after the conclusion of the project.


Publications

Books

  • Bahle, Thomas (1995): Familienpolitik in Westeuropa. Ursprünge und Wandel im internationalen Vergleich. Frankfurt/NewYork, Campus Verlag. More

Edited Books

  • Flora, Peter, Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn (Eds.) (1997): Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. 1, Oxford, Clarendon Press. More

Book Chapters

  • Textor, Martin R. (Eds.) Fix, Birgit (2003): Kinderbetreuung in Frankreich, Finnland und Schweden. 1, München, http://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/913.html. More
  • Textor, Martin R. (Eds.) Fix, Birgit (2003): Familienpolitik im internationalen Vergleich. Von Europa lernen. München, Staatsinstitut für Frühpädagogik. More
  • Schulze, Hans-Joachim (Eds.) Bahle, Thomas (2000): The family dimension of the welfare state in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. 143-164. Amsterdam, Oxford, Boston, VU University Press. More
  • Noll, Heinz-Herbert, Peter Flora (Eds.) Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher (1998): Aufbau einer komparativen Datenbank über Familienpolitik in Europa - ein Werkstattbericht. 233-258. Frankfurt a.M./New York, Campus. More
  • Netzler, Andreas, Michael Opielka (Eds.) Bahle, Thomas (1998): Familienarbeit und Typen der Familienpolitik.. 125-138. Leske + Budrich. More

Journal Articles

  • Scheiwe, Kirsten (2003): Caring and paying for children and gender inequalities: institutional configurations in comparative perspective. Journal of family history, 28, 1, 182-198. More
  • Willekens, Harry (2003): Is contemporary western family law historically unique?. Journal of family history, 28, 1, 70-107. More
  • Willekens, Harry, Kirsten Scheiwe (2003): Introduction: The deep roots, stirring present, and uncertain future of family law. Journal of family history, 28, 1, 5-14. More
  • Bahle, Thomas (1998): Family Policy in Germany: Towards a Macro-sociological Frame for Analysis. EURODATA Newsletter, 7, 21-26. More
  • Wiesehan, Gretchen (1998): Presentation "Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn: Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States". EURODATA Newsletter, 7, 27-28. More

Reports

  • Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix, Franz Rothenbacher (2002): Family Change and Family Policies: Germany. 10. Mannheim, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). More
  • Bahle, Thomas, Birgit Fix, Peter Flora, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher, Harry Willekens (2002): Family Change and Family Policies: Belgium. 2. Mannheim, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). More
  • Rothenbacher, Franz (1997): Social Change in Europe and the Impact on Family Structures. Durban, South Africa, International Society of Family Law. More

MZES Working Papers

  • Fix, Birgit (1998): The Institutionalization of Family Welfare: The Social Division of Labour in the Field of Child Care in Austria and Germany. 24, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Jurado Guerrero, Teresa, Manuela Naldini (1996): Is the South so different? Italian and Spanish Families in Comparative Perspective (The International Project on Family Changes and Family Policies). 12, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Scheiwe, Kirsten (1996): Couples, Parents, Children and the State: Defining Family Obligations in Germany (The International Project on Family Changes and Family Policies). 14, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Bahle, Thomas, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher, Kirsten Scheiwe (1992): Family Change and Family Policy. A bibliography of studies and data sources. 1, Mannheim, MZES. More