German Society for Political Science

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The German Society for Political Science (DGfP) is a political science professional association.

history

The DGfP was founded on February 23, 1983 by the former chairman of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) Manfred Hättich and the political scientists Werner Link , Dieter Oberndörfer , Alexander Schwan , Hans-Peter Schwarz , Klaus Kröger, Hella Mandt, Karl Schmitt, dem Sociologist Theodor Hanf and the lawyer Hermann Avenarius . The reason for the foundation was the split in the DVPW, above all over the question of the membership concept of a scientific association and the self-image of the subject. While the DVPW was basically open to all graduates and in the 1970s also considered accepting students, the DGfP limited itself to university professors and doctoral candidates.

The DGfP tends to have more members with conservative or right-wing liberal attitudes, although membership - and assumption of functions - was always possible for scientists from any political background. The political contrasts of the early years were u. a. minimized by the active board work of Ernst-Otto Czempiel , Jürgen Gebhardt and Gesine Schwan .

The society currently has over 200 members, including a. Political scientists, constitutional law experts, sociologists and historians as well as representatives of other related disciplines.

Supporting members are the Verlag CH Beck , the Nomos Verlag and Springer VS .

Chairperson

Annual meetings

The annual conference is at the center of the activities of the DGfP. Topics in the past years were:

  • 1996 "Democracy and Politics in the Information Society"
  • 1997 "Integrative power of politics"
  • 1998 "Politics of Decision Making"
  • 1999 "The democratic constitutional state in Germany"
  • 2000 "Space and Politics"
  • 2001 "Challenges of Representative Democracy"
  • 2002 "Violence and the search for global political order"
  • 2003 "Political Reform in Democracy"
  • 2004 "Empire"
  • 2005 “New Germany. A balance sheet of German reunification "
  • 2006 "Demographic Change: Political and Social Implications"
  • 2007 "Security"
  • 2008 "1989 and the prospects of democracy"
  • 2009 "Renaissance of the State?"
  • 2010 "The Unity of Political Science"
  • 2011 "Power"
  • 2012 "The Internet: Enrichment or Stress Factor for Democracy"
  • 2013 "Positioning Germany"
  • 2014 "Emotions and Politics"
  • 2015 "Politics in uncertain times: wars, crises and new antagonisms"
  • 2016: "Limits"
  • 2017: “On the State of the Union. Conceptual debates, social realities, international perspectives "
  • 2018: "Politics and Personality"
  • 2019: “Language and Politics. Innovations, instrumentalizations and polarization in public discourse "

Publications

DGfP publications are published by Nomos Verlag .

literature

  • Tobias Bartels: One discipline - two specialist societies !? Causes and backgrounds of the relationship between DVPW and DGfP. In: Wilhelm Knelangen , Tine Stein (ed.): Continuity and controversy. The history of political science at the University of Kiel. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0763-8 , pp. 481-519.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bartels, One Discipline - Two Specialist Societies !? , P. 450 f.
  2. ^ A b c Wilhelm Bleek : History of Political Science in Germany , Munich 2001, ISBN 3406471730 , p. 363.