Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
founded in the year	1955
City	Sankt Augustin/Bonn
Country	Germany
Website	http://www.kas.de
Legal form	Association
address	Rathausallee 12, 53757 Sankt Augustin
Networks	European Ideas Network (EIN), Center for European Studies (CES), European Network of Political Foundations (ENOP)
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	8.06.2015
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 = 5
Presences n = 2
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Think Tank,1 Business,0 Media,0 Politics,1 Academia,0 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.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,0 Leader (CEO etc.),2 Consultant,0 Editor,0 Interviewee,0 Member,0 Participant,0 Lecturer,0 Employee,0 </pPie>

The following coordinate was not recognized: 50.77598;7.18601.The following coordinate was not recognized: 50.77598;7.18601. The foundation is a political-educational institution affiliated with the german CDU and funded out of the public purse according to pertinent german law.

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Rathausallee 12, 53757 Sankt Augustin

People

Executive board

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

• Norbert Lammert, deputy chair of the executive board

• Beate Neuss, deputy chair of the executive board

• Hildegard Müller

• Peter Hintze, MdB

• Franz Schoser, treasurer, member executive board

• Anton Pfeifer

• Hans-Gert Pöttering, chair of the executive board

• Otto Bernhardt

• Angela Merkel, MdB

• Volker Kauder, MdB

• Hermann Gröhe, MdB

• Andreas Rödder

• Bernhard Vogel, honorary chair of the executive board

• Hildigund Neubert, deputy chair of the executive board

• Michael Thielen, secretary general, member executive board

• Hermann Kues

• Helmut Kohl

• Günter Rinsche

• Dieter Althaus

• Michael GrosseBrömer, MdB

• Jürgen Rüttgers

Staff

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

• Petra Bahr

• Sabine Stoye

• Stefan Friedrich

• Patrick Jäger

• Beate Kindler

• Gerhard Wahlers

• Katja Christina Plate

• Andrea Ellen Ostheimer

• Kerstin Klenovsky

• Jens Paulus

• Olaf Jacob

• Dagmar Weigel

• Philipp Lerch

• Hanns Jürgen Küsters

• Walter Glos

• Nico Lange

• Ralf Güldenzopf

• Matthias Schäfer, head of the department 'Wirtschaftspolitik' (economic policy)

• Henri Bohnet

• Beatrice Gorawantschy

• Ludger Gruber

• Hans-Jörg Clement

• Franziska Block

• Frank Priess

• Melanie Piepenschneider

• Gisela Elsner

• Wolfgang Maier

• Ursula Moss

• Thomas Birringer

• Werner Blumenthal

Supervisory board

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

• Klaus-Peter Müller, member of the board of trustees

• Eberhard Schockenhoff, member of the board of trustees

• Horst Teltschik, member of the board of trustees

• Kurt Biedenkopf, member of the board of trustees

• Monika Grütters, member of the board of trustees

• Horst Köhler, member of the board of trustees

• Hans Tietmeyer, member of the board of trustees

• Klaus Naumann, member of the board of trustees

• Ingrid Sehrbrock, member of the board of trustees

• Bernhard Vogel, member of the board of trustees

• Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, member of the board of trustees

• Hermann Kues, member of the executive board

• Dorothee Wilms, guest member of the executive board

• Bernhard Worms, guest member of the executive board

• Klaus Schüler, guest member of the executive board

• Hermann Gröhe, member of the executive board

• Volker Kauder, member of the executive board

• Wolfgang Herrmann, member of the board of trustees

• Wolfgang Spindler, member of the board of trustees

• Helmut Kohl, member of the executive board

• Burkhard Spinnen, member of the board of trustees

• Anton Pfeifer, member of the executive board

• Eilert Herms, member of the board of trustees

• Erwin Teufel, member of the board of trustees

• Michael Grosse-Brömer, member of the executive board (coopted)

• Günter Rinsche, member of the executive board

• Volker Schumpelick, member of the board of trustees

• Christoph Stölzl, member of the board of trustees

• Dieter Althaus, member of the executive board (coopted)

• Peter Hintze, member of the executive board

• Otto Bernhardt, member of the executive board

• Hildegard Müller, member of the executive board

• Dieter Stolte, member of the board of trustees

• Jürgen Rüttgers, member of the executive board

• Hans-Peter Schwarz, member of the executive board

• Roman Herzog, chair of the board of trustees

• Manfred Erhardt, member of the board of trustees

• Andreas Rödder, member of the executive board

• Rupert Scholz, member of the board of trustees

• Angela Merkel, member of the executive board

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.

• Debt Brake (Austerity Politics): argues for institutionalized budgetary discipline

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): discusses legal framework for the optimization of public expenditures and the measurement of cost benefit relations under the premise of public cost reduction Keyfigures: Matthias Schäfer

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): argues for a mentality of public saving

References

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