Christine Landfried

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Christine Landfried 2019 in Frankfurt am Main

Christine Landfried (born April 3, 1949 in Altenburg ) is a German political scientist .

After graduating from the State High School in Leininger in 1968 in Grünstadt , Landfried studied political science, history and international law at the University of Heidelberg from 1968 to 1973 . This was followed by studies at Harvard in 1973/74 . In her master's thesis she dealt with the beginnings of the welfare state in Germany. From 1975 to 1977 she was Reinhart Koselleck's assistant for the “Theory of History” working group at the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg. From 1980 to 1989 she was a lecturer in political science at Heidelberg University. There she received her doctorate in 1984 on the subject of the Federal Constitutional Court and Legislature .

From 1986 to 1987 she was the correspondent of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk for reporting on the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court for Tagesschau and Tagesthemen. In 1987 Landfried received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . Her habilitation followed in 1989 in Heidelberg. Landfried worked from 1995 to 1996 at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute in Florence. From 1996 to 1997 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. From 1997 to 2000 she was chairwoman of the German Association for Political Science . In 1990 she succeeded Winfried Steffani at the Chair for Comparative Government Studies at the University of Hamburg and taught there until her retirement in 2014. From 2000 to 2008 she was a member of the Berlin Social Science Center . Since September 2014 she has held the Max Weber Chair at the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University . In 2016, Landfried received the Schader Prize .

In connection with the abolition of the Theodor Eschenburg Prize of the German Association for Political Science, she announced her departure from the association at the end of October 2013.

Landfried researches constitutional politics and the influence of national and international courts on political action. She also deals with European integration , party financing and political corruption.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Political Europe. Difference as the potential of the European Union. 2 revised and expanded edition. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-8329-1040-9 .
  • Policy-oriented impact research: on the transfer of chaos theory to the social sciences. 4th unchanged edition. Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer 1994.
  • Party finances and political power. A comparative study on the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy and the USA. 2nd Edition. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-1787-6 (also: Heidelberg, University, habilitation thesis, 1989).
  • Federal Constitutional Court and legislature. Effects of constitutional jurisprudence on parliamentary decision-making and social reality. 2nd unchanged edition. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-1069-3 .

Editorships

  • Politics in a world without borders (= library science and politics. Volume 60). Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-8046-8873-X .
  • Constitutional review and legislation. An international comparison. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1640-3 .

Web links

Commons : Christine Landfried  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Christine Landfried receives the Schader Prize 2016, press release of the Schader Foundation from February 20, 2016
  2. ^ Resigned because of a dispute over Eschenburg . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Landfried, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg