Joachim Raschke

Joachim Raschke (* 1938 in Rosenheim ) is a German political scientist , party , movement and strategy researcher.

Career

Raschke obtained his Abitur in 1957 . After graduating from high school, he began studying German , philosophy , psychology and law at the universities of Hamburg , Munich, Freiburg and Berlin . In 1961 he came to political science and in 1965 he wrote his diploma thesis in political science. After graduating, he worked as an editor for the series From Politics and Contemporary History . In 1972 he wrote his doctoral thesis on "Internal Party Opposition" at the Free University of Berlin . In 1973 Raschke went to the University of Hamburg to work as an assistant to Hans-Hermann Hartwich. In 1975 a position as lecturer and professor in the department of political science became vacant, which he received. Until 2001 he taught political science at the University of Hamburg. Since the 1990s, he has been writing commentaries for the daily newspaper taz , Der Spiegel and Die Woche, among others . He also made public appearances in the media sector of television and radio , where he gave analytical interpretations and comments. He is a party researcher and strategy researcher in demand in newspapers, magazines and television. In 2010 he co-founded the Agency for Political Strategy (APOS), an agency for advice and training on questions of political strategy. Together with Thomas Leif , Ralf Tils, Elmar Wiesendahl he regularly organizes the strategy workshop in Berlin, which brings together politicians, journalists, opinion pollers and political scientists.

Research focus

Raschke conducted research in the field of government / Federal Republic of Germany with a special focus on the German party system . His scientific interest was the social movements and the development of the parties . Among them he devoted himself above all to the GREENS from their beginnings as a peace and environmental movement to taking over government responsibility.

The Greens emerged in the old Federal Republic of Germany in the mid to late 1970s as an amalgamation of groups, primarily from the new social movements. They were initially viewed as a protest party . In 1979, together with younger colleagues, he wrote the first political analysis of the protest phenomena at the time , the green alternative and the tax protest . Following the protest tape, Raschke dealt with the investigation What is social movement ? , because at the time this concept was not clearly defined. In his book Social Movements. Using a historical-systematic outline , he dealt with the structural history of social movements in Germany and the critical reception of American movement research. The historical comparison shed new light on the younger social movements and made their limits more clearly apparent. Today "social movement" is one of the systematic terms in political science, which can be found in lexicons, and represents a separate field of research. On the subject of "THE GREENS", Raschke combined party and movement research. In December 1990, the West German Greens failed in the federal election on the percent threshold Five . From 1998 to 2005, the Greens and the SPD formed the federal government. The political scientist Raschke found it exciting to observe where a party like the Greens is developing, what future prospects it has and how it behaves in crises.

After parties and movements, Raschke's third major topic was political strategy. Here, together with Ralf Tils, he developed the conceptual basis for a political strategy analysis that did not previously exist in German political science. In numerous publications, the theory and practice of political strategy have become an established topic that has often been taken up.

Fonts (selection)

Books

• Internal party opposition. Die Linke in the Berlin SPD, Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1974, ISBN 3-455-09116-4
• Organized conflict in western European parties. A comparative analysis of party opposition groups, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-531-11287-2
• The political parties in Western Europe. History, program, practice. A manual (as editor), Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1978, ISBN 3-499-14269-4
• together with Thomas Leif: Rudolf Scharping, the SPD and power. A party is visited, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1994, ISBN 3-499-13519-1
• Social movements. A historical-systematic floor plan, 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-593-33857-2
• The green. How they became what they are, Cologne: Bund-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-7663-2474-8 (editor).
• Crisis of the Greens. Balance and new beginning, 2nd edition, Marburg: Schüren Presse , 1993, ISBN 3-89472-250-9
• The future of the greens. You can't rule like that, Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-593-36705-X
• together with Ralf Tils: Strategy in Political Science. Contours of a new field of research, Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17066-4
• together with Ralf Tils: Political Strategy. A foundation, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-19870-5 .
• together with Ralf Tils: Politics needs strategy - tactics have enough. A course book, Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39420-6

Others

• "The Greens between movement and parliamentary party". In: Contemporary Studies. Society, state, education. Journal for society, economy, politics and education , Leverkusen. Vol. 36, 198
• "Social conflicts and party system in the Federal Republic". In: From Politics and Contemporary History . Supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament , Bonn 1985, no. 49. pp. 22–39. 69 note, 1 graph. Darst. Essay. 7, H. 2. pp. 171-184
• "The Greens and the Parliamentary System of Government". In: Contemporary Studies , Opladen. Vol. 32, 1983, H. 2. pp. 143-157
• “Beyond the People's Party”. In: The Argument , Berlin. Vol. 25, 1983, H. 137. pp. 54-64
• "Politics and Value Change in Western Democracies". In: From politics and contemporary history , supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament , Bonn 1980, no. 36. pp. 23–45
• Angela Merkel miscalculated on the nuclear issue - and not only there. Too much tactics, too little strategy: that's what failed the Chancellor. taz of May 31, 2011

Web links

• Short entry by Joachim Rascke ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry on Joachim Rascke at the University of Hamburg ( Memento from October 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )