Open Europe Berlin
| Open Europe Berlin | |
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| founded in the year | 2012 |
| City | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Website | http://www.openeuropeberlin.de/ |
| address | Oranienburger Straße 27, 10117 Berlin |
| Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties). | Neue Rechte, Austerity politics |
| Last revision | 3.12.2014 |
| Output of Open Europe Berlin 2024 | |
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Books, Peer reviewed pubs., Studies, Articles, Policy papers, Op-eds, Newspaper articles, Blogs, Periodicals, Podcasts (audio), Podcasts (video), Conferences, Seminars/workshops, Lecturers/talks, Briefings, Others, </pbars> | |
| Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once. | |
| People n = 17 | |
| Presences n = 27 | |
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Think Tank,5 Business,6 Media,6 Politics,4 Academia,6 NGO,0 </pPie> | |
| Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once. | |
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Author,6 Leader (CEO etc.),4 Consultant,4 Editor,0 Interviewee,3 Member,9 Participant,0 Lecturer,0 Employee,1 </pPie> | |
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Organizational Structure and Funding
Address
Oranienburger Straße 27, 10117 Berlin
People
Executive board
People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).
- Michael Wohlgemuth, Director
Staff
People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.
- Nora Hesse, Vice director
Advisory board
People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)
Topics
We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.
Semantic Fields
What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.
- Tax Reduction (Austerity Politics): a high tax rate hinders economic growth even if the correlation is weaker than as stated by Reinhard & Rogoff[1]
References
ad »Austerität in Europa«: the study sees mixed evidence for the pervasiveness of fiscal austerity in the EU; austerity is not a all encompassing and dominant paradigm (a often used counter argument to criticisms of austerity: there is not austerity, where you criticize it); high taxes hinder economic growth albeit the correlation is not as strong as assumed by Reinhard and Rogoff; in the past austerity politics was mostly successful.