Walter Eucken Institut

Walter Eucken Institut
City	Freiburg
Country	Germany
Website	http://www.walter-eucken-institut.de
address	Goethestrasse 10, D-79100, Freiburg im Breisgau
Networks	Stockholm Network, parteipolitische EU-Think Tank-Netzwerke
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).	Austerity politics
Last revision	20.11.2014
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 = 16
Presences n = 6
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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.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,0 Leader (CEO etc.),4 Consultant,0 Editor,0 Interviewee,0 Member,0 Participant,0 Lecturer,0 Employee,2 </pPie>

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Goethestrasse 10, D-79100, Freiburg im Breisgau

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Lars P. Feld

• Wernhard Möschel

• Alfred Schüller, former

• Viktor J. Vanberg

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Wendula Gräfin v. Klinckowstroem

• Sandra Bodemer, former

• Nils Goldschmidt

• Sarah Necker

• Benedikt Fritz

• Heiko Burret

• Julia Wohfinger

• Jan Schnellenbach

• Ekkehard Köhler

• Yannick Bury

• Konstantin Klemmer

• Christian Pfeil

• Michael Wohlgemuth

• Daniel Nientiedt

Members

Members are not actively engaged in the institution, but have some rights (participation in certain events...). Sometimes members have to pay extensive yearly fees.

• Peter Thuy

• Dirk Wentzel

• Daniel Zimmer

• Alfred Schüller

• Gerold Blümle Schopfheim

• Frank Daumann

• Anne Van Aaken

• Oliver Budzinski

• Helmut Leipold

• Ulrich Schwalbe

• Peter-Christian Müller-Graff

• Bernhard Neumärker

• Andreas Knorr

• Rainer Klump

• Martin Leschke

• Florian Wagner-von-Papp

• Klaus Heine

• Wolfgang Kerber

• Detlef Aufderheide

• Mathias Rohe

• Egon Görgens

• Otmar Issing

• Stefan Bechtold

• Joachim Jickeli

• Heike Schweitzer

• Christian Müller

• Karen Horn

• Manfred Hilzenbecher Filderstadt

• Gernot Gutmann

• Ingo Pies

• Ulrich Fehl

• Dieter Schmidtchen

• Mathias Erlei

• Heinz Georg Grossekettler

• Dirk Sauerland

• Gerhard Kempter

• Hans Otto Lenel

• Bernhard Duijm

• Christoph Engel

• Jürgen Basedow

• Andreas Freytag

• Manfred E. Streit

• Gerhard Wegner

• Michael Wohlgemuth

• Thomas Geer

• Lars P. Feld

• Wernhard Möschel

• Nils Goldschmidt

• Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker

• Thomas Apolte

... further results

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Christoph Schaltegger

• Hans-Jochen Schiever

• Erich Todtenhaupt, former

• Hans-Georg Wolf

• Bukart Knospe

• Wolfgang Kerber

• Konstantin Schwab

• Günter Knieps

• Joachim Starbatty, former

• Karen Horn

• Gerhard Kempter

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.

• Financial Programming and the Budget
• International Trade/Globalization
• Economic and Monetary Affairs
• Contemporary History/Politics of History, Theory, Clash of Ideas

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.

• Austerity measures (Austerity Politics): Lower social costs, cut wages