Benjamin Höhne

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Benjamin Höhne (* 1978 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is a German political scientist and deputy head of the Institute for Research on Parliamentarism (IParl) in Berlin.

Live and act

Benjamin Höhne received his doctorate at the University of Trier , where he was a research assistant from 2006 to 2012. He has also taught and researched at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Potsdam and the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . On behalf of the Science & Democracy Foundation, he and Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer set up the Institute for Research on Parliamentarism (2016). As part of his research focus on parties, participation and political attitudes, he is scientifically policy adviser and a. active for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Awards

Höhne's dissertation “Recruiting Members of the European Parliament. Organization, actors and decisions in political parties ”was awarded the German Bundestag's Science Prize in 2014. In his dissertation on personnel recruitment in party organizations, Höhne worked out a strong self-reference of the political parties, which makes their adaptability to a dynamic environment appear questionable.

Publications (selection)

  • Recruitment of Members of the European Parliament. Organization, actors and decisions in parties , Opladen / Berlin / Toronto 2013.
  • Turning away from the parties? Party democracy and citizen protest (publisher with Oskar Niedermayer and Uwe Jun), Wiesbaden 2013.
  • Party families - Identity-determining or just a label? (Editor with Uwe Jun), Opladen / Berlin / Toronto 2012.
  • Engagement prevents political disaffection (not always): Confidence in democracy and parliamentary satisfaction of active party members , in: Journal for Parliamentary Questions (ZParl), Volume 49, H. 4/2018, pp. 912–932.
  • Member parties - endless decline? (with Elmar Wiesendahl and Malte Cordes), in: Journal for Parliamentary Questions (ZParl), 49th vol., H. 2/2018, pp. 304-324.
  • How do parties line up their parliamentary candidates? Personnel management before the 2017 federal election , in: Carsten Koschmieder (Ed.): Parties, party systems and political orientations. Current articles from party research, Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 227-253.
  • The changing social origins of MPs (with Melanie Kintz), in: Elmar Wiesendahl (Ed.): Parties and social inequality, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 259–285.
  • Parties as representatives of the population's attitudes towards foreign and security policy? Responsiveness of political parties in a governmental policy field, in: Heiko Biehl and Harald Schoen (Eds.): Security policy attitude research. Theories, Methods, Findings, Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 207–236.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundestag election: How do the candidates get on the list? Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ THE LEFT. July 17, 2016, accessed September 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Politics is (not) a men's business. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Volker Müller: German Bundestag - Science Prize awarded to young researchers. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Höhne, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Wittenberg