Dr. Sascha Münnich
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-274
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
Personal homepage
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Paulstr. 3 | 50676 Cologne | Germany
Phone: +49 221 2767-274
Fax: +49 221 2767-555
Personal homepage
Research Interests
institutional theory; the embeddedness of market interaction; interpretative sociology; labor market and social policy; political economy; qualitative and interpretative methodsSelected Publications
Wie weit reicht der Einfluss von Ideen? Herausforderungen und Grenzen ideen- und diskursorientierter Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 57, 4, 487-498 (2011)Interest-Seeking as Sense-Making: Ideas and Business Interests in the New Deal. European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie 52, 2, 277-311 (2011)
Interessen und Ideen: Soziologische Kritik einer problematischen Unterscheidung. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 40, 5, 371-387 (2011)
Interessen und Ideen: Die Entstehung der Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland und den USA. Frankfurt a. Main: Campus, 2010
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Vita
| since 2010 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2009-2010 | Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2009 | Doctorate in sociology, University of Cologne; thesis on the impact of ideas on interest formation and the emergence of welfare state institutions as exemplified by unemployment insurance |
| Jan.-July 2007 | Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University |
| 2005-2009 | Doctoral Fellow, MPI for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 1998-2005 | Studied sociology and economy, University of Göttingen; Diplom-Sozialwirt (Masters equivalent) |
Professional Activities (Selected)
Co-Chair, Working Group on Comparative Research on the Welfare State, German Political Science Association (since 2009)Awards and Honors (Selected)
2010: Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for an outstanding dissertation2006: Wolfgang Enke Prize of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Göttingen for the best thesis on social policy. Awarded for the diploma thesis "Die Krise des Wohlfahrtsstaates: Anatomie einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte" (analyzing the social policy debate on the crisis of the welfare state)