Aurel croissant

Aurel Croissant (born October 3, 1969 ) is a full professor of comparative political science at the Institute for Political Science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

education

Croissant received his Dr. Phil. In political science from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ( magna cum laude ) and his MA in political science, social sciences and public law from the university from which he graduated with summa cum laude . He is fluent in written and spoken German, English, French, and has basic to medium knowledge of Korean, Thai and Spanish.

Career

He taught and directed from 1996 to 2001 at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and since 1999 at Heidelberg University. From 2001 to 2003 he taught as an assistant professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. From 2004 to 2006 he was Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Comparative Politics in the National Security Affairs Department of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In 2006 he accepted the position of professor at Heidelberg University, where he supervised, among other things, bachelor, master and doctoral theses in political science. His teaching and research focuses on Southeast and East Asian politics, democratization and authoritarianism, civil-military relations, conflict research, civil society and other topics in comparative politics. He has published more than 150 articles & book chapters in English and German, which have also been translated into Spanish, Indonesian, Korean and Russian. He is also the co-author of 4 books. He taught and researched in Thailand, the Philippines and Korea and served as co-chair of the Research Council for Democratization of the German Society for Political Science . Since 2012 he has been the executive co-editor of the quarterly magazine Democratization . He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index and the Sustainable Governance Indicators as well as a curator at the Forum for International Security .

Publications (selection)

• with Wolfgang Merkel , Hans-Jürgen Puhle , Peter Thiery: Defect Democracies. Volume 2: Regional Analysis. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006.
• with Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle, Claudia Eicher and Peter Thiery: Defect Democracies Volume 1: Theory . Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2003.
• with Beate Martin: Between Consolidation and Crisis. Elections and Democracy in Five Nations in Southeast Asia , Münster: Lit Verlag, 2006.
• with Beate Martin and Sascha Kneip: The Politics of Death. Political Violence in Southeast Asia , Münster: Lit Verlag, 2006.

items

• Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Paul W. Chambers, Siegfried O. Wolf: Beyond the Fallacy of Coup-ism: Conceptualizing Civilian Control of the Military in Emerging Democracie , Democratization, 2010.
• with Daniel Barlow: Terrorist Financing and Government Responses in Southeast Asia , in: Harold Trinkunas and Jeanne Giraldo, eds., Terrorist Financing and Government Responses (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
• Aurel Croissant and David Kuehn: Patterns of Civilian Control of the Military in East Asia's New Democracies. In: Journal of East Asian Studies. Volume 9, No. 2, 2009, pp. 187-218.
• The Perils and Promises of Democratization through United Nations Transitional Authority - Lessons from Cambodia and East Timor. In: Democratization. Volume 15, No. 3, 2008, pp. 649-668.
• Unrest in South Thailand: Contours, Causes and Consequences of Post – 2001 Violence , Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 27, no.1 (2005).
• with Dan Pojar: The Parliamentary Elections in Thailand, February 2005 , Electoral Studies 25 (2006), 184–191.
• Muslim Insurgency, Political Violence and Democracy in Thailand , Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 19, no.1, January 2007.
• with Daniel Barlow: Following the Money Trail: Terrorist Financing and Government Responses in Southeast Asia , Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, vol. 29, no.8, December 2006.
• From Transition to Defective Democracy? Mapping Asian Democratization , in: Wolfgang Merkel and Aurel Croissant, eds. Consolidated or defective democracies? Problems of Regime Change, Special Issue of Democratization vol. 11, no. 5 (December 2004), 156-179.
• with Wolfgang Merkel: Introduction , in: Aurel Croissant and Wolfgang Merkel, eds., Consolidated or defective democracies? Problems of Regime Change, Special Issue of Democratization vol. 11, no. 5 (December 2004), 1-10.
• with Wolfgang Merkel: Conclusion: Good and Defective Democracies , in: Aurel Croissant and Wolfgang Merkel eds., Consolidated or defective democracies? Problems of Regime Change, Special Issue of Democratization vol. 11, no. 5 (December 2004), 199-214.
• Changing Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asia , in: Social Policy & Administration, vol. 38, no. 5 (October 2004), 504-524.
• Riding the tiger. Civil Control and the Military in Democratizing Korea , in: Armed Forces and Society, Volume 30, No. 3 (Fall 2004), 357-381.
• Legislative Powers, Veto Players, and the Emergence of Delegative Democracy. A Comparison of Presidentialism in the Philippines and Korea , in: Democratization, Vol. 10, No. 3 (June 2003), 68-99.
• with Jörn Dosch: Election Note: Thailand's first votes to the Senate and House of Representatives under the 1997 Constitution , in: Electoral Studies, Vol. 22 (Summer 2003), 153–160.
• Majoritarian and Consensual Democracy, Electoral Systems and Democratic Consolidation in Asia , in: Asian Perspective, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 2002), 5-39.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Aurel Croissant ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) on uni-heidelberg.de.  
2. ↑ Editorial Board . In: Democratization . tape 19 , no. 6 , December 1, 2012, ISSN  1351-0347 , doi : 10.1080 / 13510347.2012.749683 .