Detlef Jahn

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Detlef Günter Jahn (born April 5, 1956 in Duisburg ) is a German political scientist and has held the Chair of Comparative Government Studies at the University of Greifswald since 1999 .

Life

After studying political science, sociology and history at the universities of Duisburg , Bielefeld and Edinburgh (Scotland) , Jahn received his doctorate in 1991 with a DAAD scholarship at the European University Institute in Florence on the subject of "New Politics in Trade Unions".

In 1993 he became a research assistant at the University of Paderborn , where he also completed his habilitation in 1998 on the subject of "The institutionalization of ecological standpoints in modern societies" . In the same year he was offered a C4 professorship for Comparative Government Studies at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. Before that he was visiting scholar at the University of Gothenburg from 1993 to 1996 (with a habilitation grant from the DFG) and from 1996 to 1998 research professor at Nottingham Trent University.

Detlef Jahn researched and taught at the University of Gothenburg , Nottingham Trent University , Åbo Akademi (Finland), New York University , University of California Los Angeles and Irvine, as well as at the Australian National University and Lincoln University in New Zealand.

Jahn wrote basic introductory works in comparative political science (2006; second edition 2013) and political science (2009; together with Bernauer, Kuhn and Walter; third edition 2015). The results of his research on the environmental policy of the OECD countries, the political and economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the political process in modern democracies and the influence of globalization on state activity are published in national and international journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, International Organization, Journal of Public Policy published.

Together with Prof. Lyle Scruggs (University of Connecticut) and Kati Kuitto , he has compiled a data set on welfare state compensation payments and made it available to the public under Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset (CWED2). Further data sets on the positioning and coherence of political parties and governments, as well as on veto players can be found on the chair's homepage.

From April 2002 to October 2009 Jahn was the spokesman for the DVPW section "Comparative Political Science". Since 2008 he has been a board member of the Sustainable Government Indicator of the Bertelsmann Foundation . Since October 2012 he has been a permanent fellow of the Kolleg research group "The Transformative Power of Europe" at Freie Universität Berlin.

Works (excerpt)

Books
  • New Politics in Trade Unions. Applying Organizational Theory to the Ecological Discourse on Nuclear Energy in Sweden and Germany. With a foreword by Claus Offe . Dartmouth, Aldershot 1993, ISBN 1-85521-411-3 (= revised dissertation, Bielefeld University).
  • The ability of political systems to learn. On the institutionalization of ecological standpoints in Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6418-1 (= habilitation thesis , University of Paderborn, 1996).
  • Introduction to Comparative Political Science . VS, Wiesbaden, second edition 2013, ISBN 3-8100-3894-6 .
  • (with Marko Joas and Kristine Kern) Governing a Common Sea: The Continuing Change in the Baltic Sea Area Patterns of Governance. Earthscan, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84407-537-9 .
  • (Eds., With Susanne Pickel , Gert Pickel , Hans-Joachim Lauth) Methods of Comparative Politics and Social Science: New Developments and Applications. VS, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-16194-5 .
  • (together Thomas Bernauer , Patrick Kuhn and Stefanie Walter) Introduction to political science. Nomos, Baden-Baden, third edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-8329-3807-9 .
  • Comparative Politics. VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-15209-7 .
  • The Politics of Environmental Performance. Institutions and Preferences in Industrialized Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-11804-1 .
Essays
  • Environmental Performance and Policy Regimes: Explaining Variations in 18 OECD Countries, POLICY SCIENCES, Vol. 31, No. 2, 107-131; 1998.
  • The “New” Rhetoric of New Labor in Comparative Perspective: A Three-Country Discourse Analysis, WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS, Vol. 23, No. 1, 26-46; 2000, (with Matt Henn).
  • The Swedish political system , in: Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Western Europe , 3rd edition, 2003. ISBN 3-8252-8099-3
  • Globalization as Galton's Problem : The Missing Link in the Analysis of the Diffusion Patterns in Welfare State Development. International Organization 60: (2): 401-431; 2006.
  • Environmental policy and federalism: To clarify an ambivalent relationship, in: Jacob, Klaus / Biermann, Frank / Busch, Per Olof / Feindt, Peter H. (Ed.) PVS special issues on politics and the environment. (together with Sonja Wälti) Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2007 (262-279).
  • What is comparative political science: viewpoints and controversies, Journal for Comparative Political Science - ZfVP, concept issue 1/2007, 9-27.
  • Conceptualizing Left and Right in Comparative Politics: Towards a Deductive Approach. Party Politics, 17 (6): 745-65. 2011.
  • The Impact of Climate on Atmospheric Emissions: Constructing an Index of Heating Degrees for 21 OECD Countries from 1960-2005 . Weather, Climate and Society (Journal of the American Metrological Society), 5, 97-111, 2013
  • The Three Worlds of Environmental Politics, in Andreas Duit (ed.) State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance . Cambridge (MA): MIT Press (81-109). 2014.
  • "The Problem of Interdependence." In: Braun, Dietmar and Martino Maggetti (eds.), Comparative Politics: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Together with Sebastian Stephan. 14-54. 2015.
  • Diffusion, in: Wenzelburger, Georg and Zohlnhöfer Reimut (eds.) Handbuch Policy -forschung (Handbook Policy Research). Wiesbaden: Springer. 247-276.
  • Changing the Guard: Trends in Corporatist Arrangements in 42 Highly Industrialized Societies from 1960 to 2010. Socio-Economic Review , 14 (1): 47-71. 2016.
  • Distribution Regimes and Redistribution Effects during Retrenchment and Crisis: A Cui Bono Analysis of Unemployment Replacement Rates of Various Income Categories in 31 Welfare States ", in Journal of European Social Policy . (Forthcoming)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cwed2.org
  2. ^ University of Greifswald: Comparative Politics
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Detlef Günter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg