German social science research institutes shared a university-linked, ministry-answerable organizational model.

Evidence

The three institutes, which are all still in existence today, had decisive characteristics in common (although this is less true of the Cologne one). They shared the status of university institutions which were not dependent on the university administration but directly answerable to the Ministry of Culture for each of the cities; the primacy of research activity; a readiness to exploit the advantages of a large organization; and a connection between the institute and the university such that, on the one hand, the institute’s director was simultaneously a full professor of the university and, on the other, graduate students from the university took part in the institute’s research work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on institutional history and the institutional economics literature (law merchant, bourse structures). — connects to: American funders backed several new West German social-science institutes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861
• DEFINE: Defines the governing model that distinguished these research institutes from ordinary university bodies.

Broader Connections

• American funders backed several new West German social-science institutes #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1861