MPIfG Discussion Papers
MPIfG Discussion Papers present results from ongoing research and contribute to current scholarly and public debate. They are subject to internal peer review. Copies are free to order from the Institute or download as PDF files.
2025
Neoliberalism’s True Heirs: What Late-Apartheid South Africa Can Teach Us About the Contemporary Far Right. MPIfG Discussion Paper 25/2. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2025.
Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: A Typology of Regionalized Abortion Policy. MPIfG Discussion Paper 25/1. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2025.
2024
Firm Size and Society: The Link Between Firm Size, Job Outcomes, and Political Attitudes. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/9. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
Between Export-Led Growth and Administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s Two-Tiered Growth Regime. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/8. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
Mind the Output Gap: The New Technocratic Politics of EU Fiscal Rules in Italy. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/7. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
The Political Economy of Conditionality and the New Industrial Policy. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
What Makes an Imagined Future Credible?. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/5. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
The Greek Tragedy: Narratives and Imagined Futures in the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around Global Quasi-State Money. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/3. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
Dealing Government Bonds: Trading Infrastructures and Infrastructural Power in European Markets for Public Debt. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/2. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
Talking Exports: The Representation of Germany’s Current Account in Newspaper Media. MPIfG Discussion Paper 24/1. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2024.
2023
The Sunshine Problem: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
A Bitter Adjustment for German Family Capitalism: Succession and a Changing Ownership Transfer Regime. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/5. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
What Growth Strategies Do Citizens Want? Evidence from a New Survey. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
Paradigm Shifts in Macrosociology. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/3. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
Turning No Tides: Union Effects on Partisan Preferences and the Working-Class Metamorphosis. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/2. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: An Analysis of Germany’s Largest Privately Held Fortunes in 2019. MPIfG Discussion Paper 23/1. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2023.
2022
Das deutsche Wachstumsmodell, 1991–2019. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/9. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
From Media-Party Linkages to Ownership Concentration: Causes of Cross-National Variation in Media Outlets’ Economic Positioning. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/8. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.
Verkaufte Zukunft: Dilemmata des globalen Kapitalismus in der Klimakrise. MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/7. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2022.