News and Press Releases

The MPIfG marked its 40th anniversary this year with a symposium on “Exploring Societies in Transition” on May 15 and 16. The celebrations began on Thursday evening with a lecture by Marion Fourcade (University of California, Berkeley) on how the use of algorithms promotes new forms of social organization and inequality. more

Dustin Voss, a senior researcher at the MPIfG, has received the 2025 Journal Article Prize of the Society of Friends and Former Associates of the MPIfG. The award was presented during the Institute’s 40th anniversary celebrations in May for Voss’s article “Sectors Versus Borders: Interest Group Cleavages and Struggles Over Corporate Governance in the Age of Asset Management,” published in Socio-Economic Review (22 [3]: 1071–94) in 2024. more

June sees the publication by Oxford University Press of  The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe by Hannah Pool, a senior researcher at the MPIfG. Based on her award-winning dissertation, the book offers an in-depth ethnographic insight into the experiences of Afghan refugees en route to Europe.  more

Luuk Schmitz, a senior researcher at the MPIfG, and Timo Seidl, a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have been awarded the Best Paper Prize 2024 by the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) for “Moving On to Not Fall Behind? Technological Sovereignty and the ‘Geo-Dirigiste’ Turn in EU Industrial Policy” (JEPP 31 [8], 2147–74, 2024). more

Danielle Pullan, Danielle Pullan, a former doctoral researcher at the IMPRS-SPCE, is to join Georgia College & State University, a small liberal arts university in the US, in August as an assistant professor of political science with tenure track. more

Matteo Marenco, a postdoctoral researcher at the MPIfG until April of this year, took up a post as a policy officer in the field of digitalization and employment policy with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) in May. more

MPIfG Director Emeritus Fritz W. Scharpf celebrated his ninetieth birthday this spring. His research on the complex interrelationships inherent to political decision-making processes continues to shape our understanding of modern democracies to this day. Arthur Benz looks back on Scharpf's outstanding work in the lead article of the latest issue of Gesellschaftsforschung, the MPIfG’s German-language research magazine. more