Christian Welzel

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Christian Welzel

Christian Welzel (born March 25, 1964 in Saarbrücken ) is a German political scientist and Vice President of the World Values ​​Survey .

Career

Christian Welzel studied political science and economic history at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . After a Magister Artium (MA), he earned a doctorate in political science at the University of Potsdam in 1996 with the work Democratic Elite Change: The Renewal of the East German Elite from a Democratic-Sociological Perspective . In the following years, Welzel worked as a research assistant at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin and completed his habilitation in 2000 with the monograph Vanishing Point Human Development: On the Fundamentals of Democracy and the Causes of Its Spread in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin . He then taught and researched for a year at the University of Potsdam as a substitute professor at the chair “Government system of the Federal Republic of Germany”. In 2001 Welzel moved to Jacobs University Bremen as an Associate Professor of Political Science , where he received the title of Professor in 2006. As a program coordinator, he was also in charge of the Integrated Social Science undergraduate and graduate program and the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences.

Welzel has been teaching and researching at Leuphana University in Lüneburg since 2010 as Professor of Political Culture Research at the Institute for Political Science and the Center for Research on Democracy. Also in 2010 he acquired a research professorship at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. In addition to Russia and Germany, Welzel has been researching as an associated guest researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the UC Irvine University of California, Irvine in the USA since 2006 . In 2015 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Research interests

His research interests relate in particular to the following topics:

Value orientations, changing values ​​and the World Values ​​Survey

Christian Welzel's research focuses primarily on the question of how the value orientations of normal people change the political culture in today's societies. His research is based on data from the World Values ​​Survey . Christian Welzel has been a board member and vice president for research for the World Values ​​Survey Association since 2008. Researchers from all over the world are currently working on the sixth wave of this survey. Christian Welzel leads the project in Germany. 2000 people, half from West Germany and half from East Germany, were asked about their values ​​in 2013 for this purpose. The subjects then took part in an online experiment to examine the relationship between a person's values ​​and willingness to cooperate . The project is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Publications

Welzel has published in the field of research on value orientations and changing values. a. about development processes that transform political cultures and how these transformations affect political institutions, especially in democracies. His latest book was published in December 2013 under the title "Freedom Rising" by Cambridge University Press . Together with Amy Alexander, Maria Göppert Professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , he also researches and analyzes the role emancipatory values ​​play in the empowerment of women. Welzel also researches and publishes together with Ronald Inglehart , the Skyttepreis winner and founder of the World Values ​​Survey.

See also

Works

Monographs

  • Christian Welzel: Freedom Rising. Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, New York / Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-03470-9 .
  • Ronald Inglehart; Christian Welzel: Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, New York / Cambridge 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-84695-0 .
  • Christian Welzel: Vanishing point human development: About the foundations of democracy and the causes of its spread. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-531-13608-9 .
  • Christian Welzel: Democratic change of the elite: The renewal of the East German elite from a democratic-sociological point of view. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997 doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-09587-3 .

Edited volumes

  • Russel J. Dalton, Christian Welzel: The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens. Cambridge University Press, New York 2014, ISBN 9781107039261
  • Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen , Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel: Democratization. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-923302-1 .
  • Hans-Joachim Lauth, Gert Pickel , Christian Welzel: Democracy Measurement: Concepts and Findings in International Comparison. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2000, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-322-89590-5

Magazine articles

  • Ronald Inglehart et al. Christian Welzel: Genes, Security, Tolerance and Happiness. In: Journal of Research in Gender Studies. 4th year, No. 1, 2014, p. 32.100.
  • Margarita Zavadskaya, Christian Welzel: Subverting Autocracy: The Role of Emancipative Mass Values. In: Democratization. 21, 2014, pp. 1–26.
  • Christian Welzel: Evolution, Empowerment and Emancipation: How Societies Climb the Freedom Ladder. In: World Development. 64, 2014, pp. 33-51.
  • Christian Welzel: The Myth of Asian Exeptionalism: Response to Bomhoff and Gu. In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 43 vol., No. 7, 2012, pp. 1039-1054
  • Amy C. Alexander, Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel: Measuring Effective Democracy: A Defense. In: International Political Science Review. 33rd vol., No. 1, 2012, pp. 41-62, doi : 10.1177 / 0192512111414682
  • Christian Welzel, Franziska Deutsch: Emancipative Values ​​and Nonviolent Protest: The Importance of 'Ecological' Effects. In: British Journal of Political Science. 42 Vol., No. 2, 2011, pp. 465-479, doi : 10.1017 / S0007123411000421
  • Amy C. Alexander, Christian Welzel: Measuring Effective Democracy: The Human Empowerment Approach. In: Comparative Politics. 43 vol., No. 3, 2011, pp. 271-289, doi : 10.5129 / 001041511795274931
  • Amy C. Alexander, Christian Welzel: Islam and Patriarchy: How Robust is Muslim Support for Patriarchal Values? In: International Review of Sociology. Volume 21, No. 2, 2011, pp. 249-275, doi : 10.1080 / 03906701.2011.581801
  • Christian Welzel: How Selfish are Self-Expression Values? A civicness test. In: Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology. , Volume 41, No. 2, 2010, pp. 152-174, doi : 10.1177 / 0022022109354378
  • Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel: Changing Mass Priorities: The Link between Modernization and Democracy. In: Perspectives on Politics . , 8th vol., No. 2, 2009, pp. 551-567, doi : 10.1017 / S1537592710001258
  • Ronald, Inglehart, R., Roberto Foa, Christopher Peterson, Christian Welzel: Development, Freedom and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective 1981-2006. In: Perspectives on Psychological Science. , Volume 3, No. 4, 2008, pp. 264-85, doi : 10.1111 / j.1745-6924.2008.00078.x
  • Christian Welzel; Ronald Inglehart: The Role of Ordinary People in Democratization. In: Journal of Democracy. Volume 19, No. 1, 2008, pp. 126-140, doi : 10.1353 / jod.2008.0009
  • Christian Welzel: Democratization as an Emancipative Process: The Neglected Role of Mass Motivations In: European Journal of Political Research. 45th vol., No. 6, 2006, pp. 871-896, doi : 10.1111 / j.1475-6765.2006.00637.x
  • Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart, Franziska Deutsch: Social Capital, Voluntary Associations, and Collective Action: Which Aspects of Social Capital Have the Greatest 'Civic' Payoff? In: Journal of Civil Society. , 1. Vol., No. 2, 2005, pp. 121-146, doi : 10.1080 / 17448680500337475
  • Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel: Political Culture and Democracy: Analyzing Cross Level Linkages. In: Comparative Politics. , 36th jg., No. 1, 2003, pp. 61-79, doi : 10.2307 / 4150160
  • Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart, Hans-Dieter Klingemann: The Theory of Human Development: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. In: European Journal of Political Research. , Volume 42, No. 3, 2003, pp. 341-380, doi : 10.1111 / 1475-6765.00086
  • Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris, Christian Welzel: Gender Equality and Democracy. In: Comparative Sociology , Vol. 1, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 235-264.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete curriculum vitae http://www.leuphana.de/christian-welzel.html
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel (with CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ Link to research projects: http://www.leuphana.de/ueber-uns/lösungen/christian-welzel/forschung-projekte/weiter-projekte.html
  4. ↑ DFG-SNSF research project "Value Orientations and Cooperation" http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/zdemo/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/werteorientierung-und-kooperation.html
  5. ↑ Welzel, Christian (2013): Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation http://www.cambridge.org/welzel
personal data
SURNAME Welzel, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken