American funders backed several new West German social-science institutes

Evidence

(The Institute of Social-Scientific Research (Institut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung) in Darmstadt, founded in 1949, was also financed by a grant from HICOG, but it only survived for a few years. The Rockefeller Foundation supported the establishment of a Dortmund Sociological Research Unit (Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund) at the University of Münster. Political science was encouraged by the Americans even more than sociology.) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1861

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American occupiers funded empirical sociology to promote democracy in Germany. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; German social science research institutes shared a university-linked, ministry-answerable organizational model. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 68; American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• US occupation authorities funded German sociology as a tool for democratization #exemplifies (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1861
• American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1865
• Three US foundations funded university area studies to consolidate global hegemony #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 240