Prof Dr. Renate Mayntz

Research

General Interests

 

• theories of society/ social systems
 

• political institutions, policy development and implementation
 

• development of science and of technology, relationship between science and politics
 

• transnational structures and "global" governance
 

Current Work

 

• types of theoretical statements in the analysis of social macro-phenomena, concepts of social mechanisms
 

• the interaction of internal (push) and external (pull) factors in the development of basic research
 

• institutionalization of political counselling
 

• legal and criminal transnational structures, international organizations and "global governance"