Armin Schäfer (political scientist)

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Armin Schäfer (* 1975) is a German political scientist .

Life

Schäfer studied political science, economics and peace and conflict research at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Kent at Canterbury and graduated in 2000 with a degree in political science. From 2001 to 2004 he was a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and received his doctorate in 2004 from the University of Bremen . In 2005 he received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for his dissertation . Until 2014 Schäfer worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and, after completing his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg, was appointed Professor of Political Science (W2) with a focus on "International Comparative Political Economy" at the University of Osnabrück in the same year . His habilitation thesis was awarded the foundation prize in 2017 by the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne . Schäfer has been Professor of Political Science (W3) with a focus on comparative political science at the University of Münster since 2018 . In autumn 2018 he was elected chairman of the German Association for Political Science ( DVPW ), after having held this office on a provisional basis from 2015 to 2016.

His research interests lie at the interface between comparative political economy and empirical democracy research.

Fonts (selection)

  • The new non-commitment. Economic Policy Coordination in Europe . Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37880-9 .
  • The loss of political equality. Why falling voter turnout is damaging democracy . Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 3-593-50198-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.dvpw.de/wir/vorstand/