Arthur Benz

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Arthur Benz (* 1954 in Wendlingen am Neckar ) is a German political scientist and professor at the TU Darmstadt .

Life

Arthur Benz studied administrative sciences at the University of Konstanz between 1974 and 1979 . After completing his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Spatial Planning at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster until 1984 .

During this time he received his doctorate in September 1983 at the University of Duisburg . In April 1984 he took up a position as research assistant at the Research Institute for Public Administration at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In mid-1987 he became a university assistant there.

From April 1990 onwards, Benz was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. In January 1993 he qualified as a professor at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and in the same year became professor for municipal and regional development policy and infrastructure planning at the University of Konstanz, Faculty of Administrative Science. In October 1995 he became professor for government and policy research at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg at the Institute for Political Science. He stayed that way until he became professor of political science at the Fernuniversität Hagen in November 1999 . In 2010 he accepted a position at the TU Darmstadt.

In 2007 Arthur Benz received the John G. Diefenbaker Award and was a visiting researcher at Carleton University Ottawa for one year. In 2014/5 he conducted research as a fellow at the Cultural Studies College at the University of Konstanz.

Arthur Benz was deputy chairman of the German Association for Political Science from 2003-2006. Between 2003 and 2004 he worked as an expert in the commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat for the modernization of the federal system.

His main research interests are politics in multilevel systems, comparative federalism research and the change of the state .

Projects

  • Linking National and International Administrations II (2017–2020; Funding: German Research Foundation) (Staff: Timo Alexander Richter / Sebastian Widmuch)
  • Supra-local action and local innovations in climate change (together with Michèle Knodt 2015–2018; funding: German Research Foundation) (collaborators: Jörg Kemmerzell / Anne Hofmeister / Andreas Corcaci)
  • Linking National and International Administrations (2014–2017; Funding: German Research Foundation) (Staff: Andreas Corcaci / Jan Wolfgang Doser)
  • City competition, city networks and local policy learning in climate change (2012–2015; funding: German Research Foundation)
  • Variants and dynamics of political integration (2012–2014, funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation) (employees: Jessica Detemple and Dominic Heinz)
  • Model of the constitutional reform of federal states (2008–2011; funding: German Research Foundation)
  • Europeanization of the work of national parliaments , (2001–2003; funding: German Research Foundation)

Publications

  • The Art of Keeping the Balance. Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government , Oxford, Oxford University Press 2016.
  • (with Jessica Detemple and Dominic Heinz) Variants and Dynamics of Political Integration in Germany , Baden-Baden, Nomos 2016.
  • (Ed. with Jörg Broschek) Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change, and the Varieties of Federalism , Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013.
  • (Ed. with César Colino) Federalism and Constitutional Change: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives , “Regional and Federal Studies” Special Issue 21 (4–5), London, Routledge 2011.
  • (Ed. with Nathalie Behnke) Federalism and Constitutional Change , in Publius. The Journal of Federalism , Special Issue 39 (2), Oxford, Oxford University Press 2009.
  • Politics in multi-level systems , Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2009.
  • The modern state, Munich , Vienna, Oldenbourg 2008 (2nd rev. Edition, 1st edition. 2001, Spanish edition Madrid 2010).
  • (Ed. with Yannis Papadopolous) Governance and Democracy - Comparing National, European and Transnational Experiences , London, Routledge, 2006.
  • Cooperative management. Functions, requirements and consequences , Baden-Baden, Nomos 1994.
  • (with Fritz W. Scharpf and Reinhard Zintl) Horizontal political entanglement. On the theory of negotiation systems , Frankfurt / M., New York, Campus 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Project website: Linking national and international administrations - The impact of multilevel coordination. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Project website: Supra-local action and local innovations in climate change. A comparative analysis of major German cities. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Project website: Linking national and international administrations - The impact of multilevel coordination. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Benz, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wendlingen am Neckar