Between historicity and global pressure to adapt
Institutions and institutional change in post-socialism
Project overview
Prof Zweynert co-initiated the overall project and helped develop the umbrella application. In the first funding phase, he was head of the sub-project "Cultural imprints and their political instrumentalisation in the economic transformation of Russia" (funding amount around €134,000), in the second funding phase he was vice-coordinator of the overall project and head of the sub-project "Justification strategies of authoritarian state-centred economic policy in Russia" (funding amount around €45,000).
Background to the sub-project in the second funding phase: In the early 2000s, the Russian government changed its economic policy course in order to double the gross domestic product by 2020. To this end, the "vertical of power" in the economy was increasingly strengthened, e.g. through far-reaching cooperation between the state and companies. The Witten/Herdecke University sub-project investigated how the economic policy debate changed as a result, whether nationalist economic ideas became stronger and how the government and key actors close to the government legitimised the new economic policy strategies.
Further information
- Duration: initially 2010 - 2014, extended by second funding phase 2014 - 2015
- Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (approx. €2.6 million in total)
- Responsible: Professorship of International Political Economy
- Project partner: Interdisciplinary competence network with a total of ten participating research institutions
Project management
Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Joachim Zweynert
Faculty of Management, Economics and Society | Witten Institute for Institutional Change (WIWA)
Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50
58455 Witten
Room number: C-1.224