The Cologne Institute institutionalized party-proportional representation among its department directors.

Evidence

The Cologne Institute was financed by the city (budget in the first year: 120,000 Reichsmarks). The collegial system' and the fruitful collaboration between serious-minded individuals on the basis of opposing world-views’ which Eckert mentioned in his description of the institute were institutionalized in the form of proportional representation for each of the political parties. The former state minister in Württemberg, Hugo Lindemann, who was a Social Democratic sociologist, became director of the Sociopolitical Department. The directors of the Sociology Department were Leopold von Wiese, a sociologist with a liberal background, and (at the request of Konrad Adenauer, then Mayor of Cologne) Max Scheler, as a representative of Catholic intellectual traditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 70

Categorization

• XREF: Institutionalized disagreement by proportional representation connects to the reader’s interest in institutional designs that manage ideological diversity.
• SHARE: A researcher working on how intellectual institutions formally structure political pluralism would find this specific proportional-representation arrangement notable.