Wilhelm-Röpke-Institut

Wilhelm-Röpke-Institut
City	Erfurt
Country	Germany
Website	http://roepke.hwwi.de/
address	Postfach 90 02 21
founder	Thomas Straubhaar
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	8.12.2014

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Postfach 90 02 21

People

Executive board

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

• Gerhard Wegner

• Gerhard Wegner, President

• Stefan Kolev, Vice-President

• Nils Goldschmidt, Vice-President

• Alexander Heß, Chief Executive

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.

• Justus Lenz

• Jüri Sepp

• Robert Böhmer

• Hans Jürgen Schlösser

• Julian F. Müller

• Jan Schnellenbach

• Joachim Ahrens

• Ralph Wrobel

• Hermann Giessing

• Karen Horn

• Matthias Wierlacher

• Marc Fritze

• Giuseppe Franco

• Hansjörg Klausinger

• Dario Antiseri

• Dragan Jakovljevic

• Klaus Dicke

• Matías Petersen

• Alexander Fink

• Andreas Koenig

• Flavio Felice

• Carl Johan Ljungberg

• Daniela Ortiz

• Rainer Hank

• Ekkehard A. Köhler

• Alexander Heß

• Lars P. Feld

• Marcelo F. Resico

• Hans Jörg Hennecke

• Michael Wohlgemuth

• Patricia Commun

• Kamil Kisiel

• Gunnar Geyer

• Robert Nef

• Gerrit Meijer

• Uwe Dathe

• Alexander Von Graevenitz

• Nils Hesse

• Thomas Straubhaar

• Wolfgang Roschka

• Sebastian Banusch

• Sergei Nevskij

• Hans Willgerodt

• Lars Vogel

• Elisabeth Allgoewer

• Helmut Leipold

• Carsten Dethlefs

• Joachim Starbatty

• Robert-Martin Montag

• Nils Goldschmidt

... further results

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.

Notes

This section is used to note presumptions that need further investigation, as well as things that don't fit into other sections.

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