Britta Rehder

Britta Rehder is a German political scientist . She is a professor at the Ruhr University Bochum .

academic career

Rehder studied political science and education at the University of Hamburg from 1989 and graduated in 1998 with a diploma. From 1999 to 2001 she was a scholarship holder in a joint graduate school run by the Hans Böckler Foundation and the MPIfG . From 2001 to 2002 she worked in an international research group at the Eurofound Foundation . In 2002 she was awarded a PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a dissertation on the contribution of company alliances for work to the change in industrial relations in Germany. phil. PhD. From 2002 to 2011 she worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. In 2011, she completed her habilitation as a professor of political science with a focus on the political system in Germany at the University of Münster . Her habilitation thesis deals with the role of the Federal Labor Court in the development of German collective bargaining law . Since April 2011 she has been a professor of political science at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Scientific activity

Rehder's research focuses on industrial relations, association research and the interplay between politics and law. From 2005 to 2010 she was co-spokesperson in the “Associations” working group and since 2006 has been co-spokesperson for the “Political Sociology” section of the DVPW . In addition, she has been a member and deputy chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hans Böckler Foundation since 2011 and a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal "Industrial Relations" since 2010.

Publications (selection)

• Company alliances for work in Germany. Co-determination and area tariffs are changing. (Dissertation). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2003, ISBN 3-593-37372-6 .
• Tariff policy in transition. Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-602-14689-8 . (with Hans Werner Busch, Michael Hüther, Hans Paul Frey and Wolfgang Streeck)
• The judge and his (pre-) thinkers. Lawyers as pioneers of decentralization in the German tariff system. In: Michael Stolleis, Wolfgang Streeck (Ed.): Decentralization. Current questions of political and legal control in the context of globalization. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 3-8329-2764-6 , pp. 259-283.
• Mediation of interests in policy fields - a comparative conclusion. In: Britta Rehder (Ed.): Mediation of interests in policy fields. Comparative findings from policy and association research. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16932-3 , pp. 267-273.
• Jurisprudence as Politics. The contribution of the Federal Labor Court to the development of industrial relations in Germany. (Habilitation thesis). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39505-0 .

Awards

• 2007 - Magazine award of the Association of Friends and Alumni of the MPIfG eV
• 2006 - GIRA Best Paper Award for the best journal article by a young scientist in the field of "Industrial Relations"

Web links

• Britta Rehder's profile on the homepage of the Ruhr University Bochum at sowi.rub.de
• Literature by and about Britta Rehder in the catalog of the German National Library