Research
Research Interests
Frank Nullmeier works in the fields of social policy analysis, political theory and transformation of democratic legitimation. His work focuses on welfare state theory, policy research and political theory (democratic theory, social justice and legitimation analysis). He has published widely on issues of legitimacy and justice.
Research Grants
| 2010 - 2014 | German Research Council (DFG), Project in the Collaborative Research Center Transformations of the State (CRC/Sfb 597). Legitimating States, International Regimes, and Economic Orders. Transformation of Democratic Legitimation via Internationalization and Deparlamentarization, phase III, Project B1 (ca. 600.000 €) |
| 2010 - 2011 | Nowetas Foundation: Nowetas Kooperationsverbund der Universitäten Oldenburg und Bremen, (€ 100,000) |
| 2009 - 2010 | Nowetas Foundation: Nowetas Kooperationsverbund der Universitäten Oldenburg und Bremen, Political Decision Making in Committees (Entscheidungsprozesse in politischen Gremien: Interessenheterogenität, Machtverteilung, Mehrheitsbildung und Verbindlichkeitsherstellung, € 25,000) |
| 2007 - 2010 | VolkswagenFoundation, Active Labour Market Policy as a Learning Process (Dialogprojekt: Bund und Kommunen in der Umsetzung von „Hartz IV“: Die institutionelle Fortentwicklung des SGB II als politischer Lernprozess, € 79,000) |
| 2007 - 2010 | German Research Council (DFG), Project in the Collaborative Research Center Transformations of the State (CRC/Sfb 597). On the Road to Post-national and Post-democratic Forms of Legitimation? Transformation of Democratic Legitimation via Internationalization and Deparlamentarization, phase II, (Project B1) (€ 573,200) |
| 2007 - 2008 | Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs: History and Modernization of Elections in the Field of Social Self-Administration (€ 89,000) |
| 2006 - 2008 | Fritz Thyssen Foundation, The Future of Social Self-Administration (€ 125,000) |
| 2006 - 2008 | German Research Council (DFG), The Making of Political Bindingness (€ 212,000) |
| 2004 - 2006 | Hans Böckler Foundation, Governance in German Self-administration-units: New Forms of Direction, Control and Citizen Involvement, (€ 130,700) |
| 2003 - 2006 | German Research Council (DFG), Collaborative Research Center Transformations of the State (CRC/Sfb 597). Transformation of Democratic Legitimation via Internationalization and Deparlamentarization, phase I (Project B1) (€ 430,000) |
| 1999 - 2001 | German Research Council (DFG), Micropolitics in Higher Education Policy (€ 130,000) |
| 1997 - 2000 | VolkwagenFoundation, Chief Administrator Project “University Development”, University of Hamburg, (€ 2,500,000 ) |
