Peter Flora

Peter Flora (born March 3, 1944 in Innsbruck , Tyrol , Austria ) is an Austrian sociologist who taught as a professor at the University of Mannheim until his retirement in spring 2009 . He is the son of the cartoonist Paul Flora .

academic career

Peter Flora completed elementary school and high school in Innsbruck. At the age of 21 he began studying sociology, political science and statistics at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Konstanz (1965 to 1969), which he completed in 1969 (25 years old) with the Konstanz master's degree. His master's thesis dealt with the topic of proposals for the definition of the term and for the investigation of the phenomenon "conservatism" .

The modernization researcher

From 1969 to 1973 he worked as an assistant at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim with Wolfgang Zapf , with whom he carried out the QUAM project ( quantitative model of modernization ). On the basis of the data collected in this project, he did his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Konstanz on the subject that was to occupy him and his doctoral supervisor Wolfgang Zapf for many years: modernization research . The dissertation was published by Westdeutscher Verlag in 1974 and 1975 in two volumes.

When Wolfgang Zapf accepted a professorship for Sociology III at the University of Mannheim in 1972, Peter Flora moved with him as an assistant to Mannheim. Together they applied for the project on Historical Indicators of the Western European Democracies (HIWED), which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. This project resulted in a large number of lectures, journal and book articles, the HIWED reports working paper series, two dissertations and finally the two-volume data manual State, Economy, and Society in Western Europe 1815–1975 , published in 1983 and 1987.

Just three years after completing his doctorate, Peter Flora completed his habilitation in 1976 (32 years old) at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on modernization and the development of European welfare states . The reviewers were Wolfgang Zapf and M. Rainer Lepsius .

In the same year 1976 Peter Flora received a C3 professor for sociology at the research institute for sociology of the University of Cologne , where he taught and researched until 1979. The HIWED project was followed by a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation to set up the so-called West Europe Data Archive (WEDA). The aim was to produce a historical data handbook on Western Europe against the background of Stein Rokkan’s theory and a series of data-based analyzes on the modernization of Western European societies, which were to take up Rokkan's ideas and develop them further.

The welfare state researcher

The analysis of welfare state redistribution processes already played a central role in the HIWED project. After Flora's appeal to the European University Institute (European University Institute) in Florence (Italy) in 1979, the expansion of Western European welfare states moved after the Second World War in the forefront of a large comparative research project entitled Growth to Limits: The Western European Welfare States Since World War II . With the deliberate reversal of the title of the famous book Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows and Dennis L. Meadows from 1972, not only an audience-effective hook was found, but also the central hypothesis of the project was formulated: With the expansion of the catalog of the The welfare state secured life risks and the comprehensive inclusion of almost all population groups in the welfare state programs, the welfare state has reached the upper limit of its expansion and is entering a phase of consolidation. One of Flora's most important collaborators in the project, which was carried out with the help of numerous doctoral students from the member states of the European Union, was Jens Alber , who had already worked with him on the HIWED project.

In 1982 Peter Flora accepted a call from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim to succeed M. Rainer Lepsius there. In his courses he mainly represented macro-sociology and European comparison. One of his main services is, in particular, institution building with the establishment of the Mannheim Center for Social Sciences.

The scientific entrepreneur

Flora strived to create a similar systematic basis for comparative macro-sociology on the basis of official statistics, as it had in comparative survey research in the form of various archives and summer schools. His vision was to set up a center that would give European comparative data collection and processing a permanent basis. He was in charge of drafting the application for the establishment of the Mannheim Center for Social Sciences , which was established in 1989 with funds from the Baden-Württemberg state government. From 1989 to 1993, Flora acted as the founding director of what is now the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) and did the decisive development work here. The main focus of the organization was on setting up a European library, the IT department and the European data archive . From 1996 to 1998 he held the office of director again in a second term. The Western Europe Data Archive (WEDA), later renamed the Eurodata Research Archive , became part of the MZES as an infrastructure department. The time series data collections from the HIWED and Growth to Limits project should be documented and updated in this archive. At the same time, the archive should support research projects at the MZES. The archive published its own Eurodata newsletter from 1995 to 2002/03 .

Flora's goal was the permanent institutionalization of a welfare state observation (in the sense of social reporting ). For this purpose, a number of projects about the Western European welfare state were planned, such as: continuation of the Growth to Limits project, the welfare state of various social categories such as farmers (Elmar Rieger), public servants ( Franz Rothenbacher ) etc. Furthermore, comparative projects were applied for and carried out for selected types of welfare state activities such as old age and old-age security (Jürgen Kohl) and family and family policy (Peter Flora, Alfred Kahn, Sheila Kamerman). Finally, the data stocks should also be regionalized in the form of a European social atlas .

The Roccanian

One of Flora's early goals was to publish the writings of his role model, the Norwegian Stein Rokkan, who died too early . After the project of a complete edition of all of Rokkan’s writings was dropped because the various publications z. With the help of his colleagues Stein Kuhnle and Derek Urwin, he set about reconstructing the systematic essence of his comparative European analyzes from the existing Rokkan writings and bundling them in the sense of a theory of the formation of European states and nations. For this purpose, all of Rokkan’s publications were first collected and scanned (today the Stein Rokkan Archive ) in order to create a comprehensive book ( State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Based on his collected works Edited by Peter Flora, 1999 ). This work was first published in English and then translated into German by Elisabeth Fix and into Italian by Daniele Caramani . The German paperback edition at Suhrkamp achieved high sales.

Teaching, research, administration / organization

Teaching

In teaching, Peter Flora, as a representative of macro-sociology and historical sociology, devoted himself in particular to the comparative analysis of European societies with an emphasis on historical-genetic analysis. Individual courses had titles such as: social structure analysis of Europe , state and nation building , or the European welfare state .

Research / research projects

The list of research projects initiated by Peter Flora or carried out by himself (with his colleagues) is long.

• In the transition from the sixties to the seventies, he carried out the QUAM project ( quantitative model of modernization ) together with Wolfgang Zapf at the University of Frankfurt , from which his dissertation and several comparative analyzes in English resulted.
• Historical Indicators of Western European Democracies (HIWED), applied for together with Wolfgang Zapf (results: data handbook, dissertations Alber and Kohl, HIWED Working Papers).
• Growth to Limits (Results: 3 volumes).
• Family Change and Family Policies in the West (Results: 1 volume on the Anglo-Saxon countries Canada, New Zealand and United States (Kamerman / Kahn) and further country studies on: a. Consociational Democracies: Belgium, Switzerland, The Netherlands. B. France and Southern Europe: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain. C. Central Europe: Austria, the Germanies, Hungary, Poland. D. Scandinavian Welfare States: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).

Administration / organization

Peter Flora has organized a large number of meetings and conferences over the course of his long career. One of the most important for the MZES was the conference The New Europe organized by the Committee on Political Sociology of the IPSA and ISA from February 21 to 23, 1991 at the MZES in Mannheim.

The following took part in this conference: Peter Flora, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt , Juan Linz , Erik Allardt , Richard Rose , Seymour Martin Lipset , Mattei Dogan, Philippe C. Schmitter , Bernd Schulte, Peter Graf von Kielmansegg , Klaus von Beyme , Stein Ugelvik Larsen , Wlodzimierz Wesolowski , M. Rainer Lepsius , Stein Kuhnle , Wolfgang Streeck , Max Kaase , Franz Urban Pappi , Hans-Dieter Klingemann .

Memberships

From 1979 to 1982 Peter Flora was editor of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie .

From 1987 to 1993 he was Chairman of the Committee on Political Sociology of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Peter Flora has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1999

meaning

Peter Flora is one of the fathers of the renaissance of comparative historical sociology based on macro data. In Germany, he made a decisive contribution to German sociology moving from preoccupation with its own nation in the 1970s to a comparative and European perspective. With his writings, with his work in offices of the profession and as an academic teacher, as well as with his pioneering role in founding the Mannheim Center for European Social Research, he gave decisive impulses to the systematic comparison of societies from a historical perspective.

Works

Books (author, co-author)

• Suggestions for defining the term and studying the phenomenon of “conservatism” . 2 parts. University of Konstanz, Master's thesis, 1969.
• Modernization research: For the empirical analysis of social development . Studies on social science, vol. 20. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1974.
• Modernization Indicators: A Historical Data Handbook . Studies on Social Science, Vol. 27. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975.
• Quantitative Historical Sociology: A Trend Report and Bibliography. Current Sociology (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1977) XXIII / 2, pp. 1-249.
• State, Economy, and Society in Western Europe 1815-1975: A Data Handbook in two Volumes . Frankfurt, New York: Campus; London: Macmillan Press; Chicago: St. James Press.
  • Volume I: The Growth of Mass Democracies and Welfare States . 1983 (together with Jens Alber, Richard Eichenberg, Jürgen Kohl, Franz Kraus, Winfried Pfenning, Kurt Seebohm).
  • Volume II: The Growth of Industrial Societies and Capitalist Economies . 1987 (together with Franz Kraus and Winfried Pfenning).

Books (editor)

• The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America . New Brunswick, USA and London, UK: Transaction Books, 1981. 6. Paperback Reprint 2003 (together with Arnold Heidenheimer).
• Growth to Limits: The Western European Welfare States Since World War II . 3 vols. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Volume 1: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark . 1986.
  • Volume 2: Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy . 1986.
  • Volume 4: Appendix (Synopses, Bibliographies, Tables) . 1987.
• Social Statistics and Social Reporting in and for Europe . Bonn: Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, 1994. (Europe in Comparison: A Series of Guidebooks for the Social Sciences, vol. 1) (together with Franz Kraus, Heinz-Herbert Noll and Franz Rothenbacher).
• The State of Social Welfare, 1997: International Studies on Social Insurance and Retirement, Employment, Family Policy and Health Care . International Studies on Social Security, vol. 4. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998 (Eds. With Philip R. de Jong, Julian Le Grand, and Jun-Young Kim). Therein "Introduction and Overview", pp. Xi – xiv (together with the other editors).
• Social reporting and monitoring of the welfare state: Individual welfare and welfare state institutions as reflected in empirical analyzes . Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus, 1999 (together with Heinz-Herbert Noll).
• State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Based on his collected works . Edited by Peter Flora with Stein Kuhnle and Derek Urwin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• State, Nation and Democracy in Europe: Stein Rokkan's Theory. Reconstructed from his collected works and introduced by Peter Flora . Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Bd. 1473. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp, ​​2000. Reprint 2006 (translation of State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Based on his collected works from English by Elisabeth Fix).

Series Editor

• Historical Indicators of the Western European Democracies (HIWED). Reports . No. 1-10, 1975-1979. Mannheim: Faculty of Social Sciences; University of Cologne: Research Institute for Sociology.
• European Social Science Studies. European Social Science Studies . Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus. 2 volumes 1982 (Jens Alber) and 1984 (Jürgen Kohl).
• Europe in Comparison: A Series of Guidebooks for the Social Sciences (together with Heinrich Best). Bonn: Information Center for Social Sciences; Mannheim: Mannheim Center for European Social Research. Volumes 1-6, 1994-1998.
• EURODATA newsletter . No. 1–16 / 17, Spring 1995 – Autumn / Spring 2002/2003 (published twice a year; since No. 12/13, Autumn / Spring 2000/1 annually as a double issue) (together with Franz Kraus and Franz Rothenbacher).
• International Studies on Social Security . Aldershot et al .: Ashgate. Volume 1, 1996- (Chief Series Editor).
• Family Change and Family Policies in the West: A Series of Country Studies and Comparative Analyzes Examining Major Changes in the Family and the Broad Spectrum of Family Policies in Western Industrial Society in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century . Oxford: Clarendon Press (with Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn). Volume 1, 1997.
• The Societies of Europe: A Series of Historical Data Handbooks . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000ff (together with Franz Kraus and Franz Rothenbacher).
  • Vol. 1: Daniele Caramani, Elections in Western Europe since 1815 . 2000. Reprint 2004.
  • Vol. 2: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Jelle Visser, Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 . 2000. Reprint 2004.
  • Vol. 3: Franz Rothenbacher, The European Population 1850-1945 . 2002. 3rd reprint 2006.
  • Vol. 4: Franz Rothenbacher, The European Population since 1945 . 2005. 3rd reprint 2006.
  • Vol. 5: Franz Rothenbacher, The Central and East European Population since 1850 . 2013.

Journal articles, articles in compilations (selection)

• with Wolfgang Zapf : Some Problems of Time-series Analysis in Research on Modernization. In: Social Science Information. Vol. 10, No. 3, 1971, ISSN  0037-7864 , pp. 53-102, doi: 10.1177 / 053901847101000304 , (reprinted as Differences in Path of Development: An Analysis for Ten Countries. In: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt , Stein Rokkan (Ed.): Building States and Nations. Volume 1: Models and Data Resources. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills CA et al. 1973, ISBN 0-8039-0244-1 , pp. 161-211; in German: Zeitreihen als indicators of modernization: Some problems of data collection and data analysis. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift . Vol. 12, No. 1, 1971, pp. 29-70, JSTOR 24193999 ).
• Historical processes of social mobilization. Urbanization and Literacy, 1850–1965. In: Journal of Sociology. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1972, pp. 85-117, JSTOR 23834294 .
• An example from the German provinces. Replica to G. Hauck. In: Journal of Sociology. Vol. 1, No. 4, 1972, pp. 379-384, JSTOR 23834317 .
• Historical Processes of Social Mobilization, Urbanization and Literacy, 1850-1965. In: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Stein Rokkan (Ed.): Building States and Nations. Volume 1: Models and Data Resources. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills CA u. a. 1973, ISBN 0-8039-0244-1 , pp. 213-258.
• The educational development in the process of state and nation building. In: Peter Christian Ludz (Ed.): Sociology and social history. Aspects and Problems (= Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology . Special issue 16). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1973, ISBN 3-531-11186-8 , pp. 194-319.
• A New Stage of Political Arithmetic. In: The Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol. 18, No. 1, 1974, ISSN  0022-0027 , pp. 143-165, JSTOR 173494 .
• with Jens Alber and Jürgen Kohl: On the development of the Western European welfare states. In: Political quarterly. Vol. 18, No. 4, 1977, pp. 707-772, JSTOR 24195584 .
• Crisis Management or Crisis Generation? The welfare state in a historical perspective. In: Joachim Matthes (Ed.): Social change in Western Europe. Negotiations of the 19th German Sociological Conference 17. – 20. April 1979 in the International Congress Center (ICC) in Berlin. Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-593-32620-5 , pp. 82-136.
• as editor: Stein Rokkan †: A family of models for the comparative history of Europe. In: Journal of Sociology. Vol. 9, No. 2, 1980, pp. 118-128, JSTOR 23838234 .
• Stein Rokkan Bibliography. In: Journal of Sociology. Vol. 9, No. 2, 1980, pp. 129-131, JSTOR 23838235 .
• Solution or Source of Crisis? The Welfare State in Historical Perspective. In: Wolfgang J. Mommsen (Ed.): The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany. 1850-1950. Croom Helm on behalf of the German Historical Institute, London 1981, ISBN 0-7099-1710-4 , pp. 343-389, (Reprinted edition. Ibid 1983; in German: Crisis Management or Crisis Generation? The Welfare State in Historical Perspective. In : Wolfgang J. Mommsen (Ed.): The emergence of the welfare state in Great Britain and Germany 1850–1950 (= publications of the German Historical Institute London. Vol. 11). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-12-915010-2 , Pp. 353-398).
• Stein Rokkan's Macro-Model of European Political Development: An Attempt at Reconstruction. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology. Vol. 33, No. 3, 1981, ISSN  0023-2653 , pp. 397-436.
• with Arnold J. Heidenheimer: The Historical Core and Changing Boundaries of the Welfare State. In: Peter Flora, Arnold J. Heidenheimer (Ed.): The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America. Transaction Books, New Brunswick NJ et al. a. 1981, ISBN 0-87855-357-6 , pp. 17-34, (and more often).
• with Jens Alber: Modernization, Democratization, and the Development of Welfare States in Western Europe. In: Peter Flora, Arnold J. Heidenheimer (Ed.): The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America. Transaction Books, New Brunswick NJ et al. a. 1981, ISBN 0-87855-357-6 , pp. 37-80 (and more often).
• From Industrial to Postindustrial Welfare State? In: The Advanced Industrial Societies in Disarray. What are the Available Choices? (= Annals of the Institute of Social Science. Special Issue 1989, ISSN  0563-8054 ). Institute of Social Science - University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1989, pp. 149-162.
• Western European society in transition. In: Elfriede Regelsberger, Maurizio Ferrera (Ed.), Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany - Driving Forces of European Integration. Conference of the German-Italian Discussion Forum 1989 (= German-Italian Forum of the Institute for European Politics. Vol. 1). Europa Union Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-7713-0379-6 , pp. 197-207.
• The Social Dimension of European Integration: External Boundaries and Internal Structuring — Summary. In: Wolfgang Zapf (Ed.): The modernization of modern societies. Negotiations of the 25th German Sociological Conference in Frankfurt am Main 1990 (= Negotiations of the German Sociological Conference. Lectures and discussions. 25). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-593-34574-9 , pp. 357-360.
• Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). In: Joachim Schild (Hrsg.): Country research, country comparison and European integration (= New Ludwigsburg contributions. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 1425773-7 ). German-French Institute, Ludwigsburg 1991, pp. 93–98.
• Europe as a welfare state? In: Bernhard Schäfers (Ed.): Living conditions and social conflicts in the new Europe. Negotiations 26th German Sociological Conference in Düsseldorf 1992. Campus, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-593-34965-5 , pp. 754-762.
• A System of Socio-Economic Reporting on Europe: Memorandum for the Fifth Framework Program of the EU. In: EURODATA Newsletter. No. 5, 1997, ISSN  0947-9260 , pp. 2-7 .
• The perspective of a welfare state observation. In: Peter Flora and Heinz-Herbert Noll (eds.): Social reporting and observation of the welfare state. Individual welfare and welfare state institutions as reflected in empirical analyzes (= social indicators. 20). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1999, ISBN 3-593-36120-5 , pp. 29-38.
• External border formation and internal structuring - Europe and its nations. A Rokkanian Research Perspective. In: Berlin Journal for Sociology . Vol. 10, No. 2, 2000, pp. 151-165, doi: 10.1007 / BF03204348 .

Works or translations in Italian, Spanish and Japanese

Italian

• Il macro modello sviluppo politico europeo di Stein Rokkan. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica X, 3 (1980). Bologna: Soc. Ed. Il Mulino. (Translation of "Stein Rokkans Macro-Model of the Political Development of Europe: An Attempt at Reconstruction". Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology 33.3 (1981): 397-436).
• Solutione o fonte di crisi? Il welfare state perspettiva storica. In: Maurizio Ferrera (ed.): Lo stato del benessere: Una crisi senza uscita? Firenze: Le Monnier, 1981, 1-58. (Translation of "Crisis Management or Crisis Generation? The Welfare State in Historical Perspective". In: Joachim Matthes (Hrsg.): Social Change in Western Europe: Negotiations of the 19th German Sociologists' Day April 17-20, 1979 in the International Congress Center (ICC) in Berlin, Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus, 1979, 82-136).
• Lo sviluppo del Welfare State in Europa e in America . Bologna: Il Mulino, 1983. [trad. di Sara Emanuelli, Umberto Brindani, Salvatore Lombardo e Sergio Mercuri] - Bologna: Il Mulino, c1983 (stampa 1986) (translation of "The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America". New Brunswick, USA and London, UK: Transaction Books , 1981, together with Arnold Heidenheimer).
• "Stato del benessere". In: Bedeschi, Giuseppe (director): Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali. Volume 1: Abitazione - Civiltà . Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1991, 500-513.
• Stone Rokkan: Stato, nazione e democrazia in Europe . Bologna: Il Mulino 2002 (Translation of State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Based on his collected works from English by Daniele Caramani).

Spanish

• Los Estados Nacionales del Bienestar y la Integración Europea. In: Luis Moreno Fernández (ed.): Política Social y Estado del Bienestar . Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales, Centro de Publicaciones, [1995].

Japanese

• State, Economy, and Society in Western Europe 1815-1975. A data handbook in two volumes . Frankfurt a. M .: campus; London: Macmillan Press; Chicago: St. James Press.
  • Volume I: The Growth of Mass Democracies and Welfare States . 1983 (together with Jens Alber, Richard Eichenberg, Jürgen Kohl, Franz Kraus, Winfried Pfenning, Kurt Seebohm).
  • Volume II: The Growth of Industrial Societies and Capitalist Economies . 1987 (together with Franz Kraus and Winfried Pfenning).

Hectographed work, applications, reports, working papers

• Historical Indicators of the Western European Democracies (HIWED). Reports . No. 1-10, 1975-1979. Mannheim: Faculty of Social Sciences.
  • Report No. 1: Peter Flora, The HIWED-Project: The Handbook, Theoretical Orientations and Statistical Sources . 1975. Mannheim. 121 pages.
  • Report No. 2: Peter Flora, Quantitative Historical Sociology . Manuscript for 1975 issue of Current Sociology . Without date, 1975 ?. Mannheim. 113, 61 pages.
  • Report No. 3: Peter Flora, First Drafts of the Data-Handbook and Bibliography . 1975. Mannheim. 50 pages.
  • Report No. 4: Jens Alber, Social Security I: Participants of Social Insurance Systems in Western Europe . 1976. Mannheim. 103 pages.
  • Report No. 5: Peter Flora, in collaboration with Jens Alber and Jürgen Kohl, On the Development of the Western European Welfare States . Paper prepared for delivery at Edinburgh IPSA Congress of August 16-21, 1976. 1976. Mannheim. 59 pages.
  • Report No. 6: Jürgen Kohl, Elections I: Enfranchisement and Electoral Participation . 1977. Bielefeld University and Cologne University: Research Institute for Sociology. 86 pages.
  • Report No. 7: Peter Flora, Crisis Management or Crisis Generation? The welfare state in a historical perspective . Contribution to the 19th German Sociologists' Day in Berlin from April 17th to 20th 1979. 1979. University of Cologne: Research Institute for Sociology. 46, 10 pages.
  • Report No. 8: Kurt Seebohm, The Development of Tax Structure in Western Europe 1850–1975 . 1977. University of Cologne: Research Institute for Sociology. 168 pages.
  • Report No. 9: Peter Flora, Solution or Source of Crises? The Welfare State in Historical Perspective . (see also). University of Cologne: Research Institute for Sociology. 53, 10 pages.
  • Report No. 10: Richard C. Eichenberg, Bureaucracy and Public Employment: Historical Data for the West European Democracies . 1979. University of Cologne: Research Institute for Sociology. 91 pages.

• West Europe data archive. Western European Data Archive (WEDA). Reports . No. (without number). University of Cologne: Central Archive for Empirical Social Research.
  • Report No. (no number): Population Censuses: Population by Age, Sex and Marital Status (Raw Data) (together with Winfried Pfenning). 1980. 219 pages.
• Bibliography of Population and Occupation Censuses in Europe since 1800 . Without date, around 1975 (together with Regina Kays). 96 pages.

• Modernization and the development of European welfare states . Habilitation thesis. Mannheim: Faculty of Social Sciences, 1976.
• The European Welfare States and European Integration: Some Lessons from the Theory of European State and Nation-building . Paper for the World Congress of Sociology in Madrid, 9–13 July 1990, Session 6 RC 19 Social Policy and the European Community in the 1990’s , organized by Anne-Marie Guillemard, University Paris. 18 pages.
• Final report on the development phase of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research: 1989–1992 . Mannheim: Mannheim Center for European Social Research, 1993.

• Family Change and Family Policies in the West: A Series of Country Studies and Comparative Analyzes Examining Major Changes in the Family and the Broad Spectrum of Family Policies in Western Industrial Society in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century . Oxford: Clarendon Press (with Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn).
  • Peter Cuyvers, Anton Kuijsten †, and Hans-Joachim Schulze, Family Change and Family Policies: The Netherlands . To be published in Volume II of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in Consociational Democracies Belgium, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 1.
  • Thomas Bahle, Birgit Fix, Peter Flora, Franz Kraus, Franz Rothenbacher, Harry Willekens, Family Change and Family Policies: Belgium . To be published in Volume II of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in Consociational Democracies Belgium, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 2.
  • Torben Fridberg, Family Change and Family Policies: Denmark . To be published in Volume III of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in the Nordic Countries : Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 3.
  • Jon Eivind Kolberg, Family Change and Family Policies: Norway . To be published in Volume III of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in the Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 4th
  • Eva M. Bernhardt, Ulla Björnberg, Ann-Zofie Divander, Gudny Björk Eydal, Björn Halleröd, Jonas Hinnfors, Anna-Karin Kollind, Family Change and Family Policies: Sweden . To be published in Volume III of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in the Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 5.
  • Matti Alestalo, Virpi Kosunen, Ann Muuri, Irma-Leena Notkola, Riitta Säntti, Pentti Takala, Family Change and Family Policies: Finland . To be published in Volume III of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in the Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 6th
  • Beat Fux, Family Change and Family Policies: Switzerland. To be published in Volume II of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in Consociational Democracies Belgium, Switzerland, and The Netherlands . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 8th.
  • Thomas Bahle, Birgit Fix, Franz Rothenbacher, Family Change and Family Policies: Germany . To be published in Volume V of the series: Family Change and Family Policies in Consociational Democracies Belgium, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Preprints of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research No. 10.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Peter Flora. Academia Europaea, accessed June 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ See http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/publications/book/elections-in-western-europe-since-1815-electoral-results-by-constituencies .
3. ↑ See http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/publications/book/trade-unions-in-western-europe-since-1945 .
4. ↑ See http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/eurodata/population1_cd/homepage.html .
5. ↑ See http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/eurodata/population2_cd/homepage.html .
6. ↑ See http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/projects/the-east-european-population-since-1850 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Flora in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research
• Information on Stone Rokkan