Eric Linhart

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Eric Linhart (born March 19, 1976 in Mannheim ) is a German political scientist who has been a professor at the Political Systems Department at the Institute for Political Science at the Technical University of Chemnitz since 2015 .

academic career

In 1997 Linhart began studying political science and mathematics (teaching post at grammar schools) at the University of Mannheim , which he completed in 2002 with the first state examination. In 2006 he received his doctorate under Franz Urban Pappi at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim and headed projects on coalition theory at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research . In 2007, Linhart moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he accepted a junior professorship for applied political economy. 2015 he was in Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Kiel habilitation . In the meantime he represented professorships for comparative government studies (at the University of Kiel) and for the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany (at the University of Göttingen ). After a brief stint at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he was responsible for analytical political economy, he moved to the Technical University of Chemnitz in 2015. Since then he has held the professorship for Political Systems. From 2010 to 2016, Linhart was one of three speakers in the Action and Decision Theory working group of the German Political Science Association . He was several times a fellow at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst . Since 2016 he has been dean of studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the TU Chemnitz, since 2020 editor-in-chief of the political science journal Politische Vierteljahresschrift .

research

Linhart is regarded as a representative of empirical-analytical political science, whereby he uses formal models and quantitative methods more often than qualitative ones. While he was still dealing with international negotiation systems in his dissertation - that is, researching in the field of international relations - he then mainly turned to topics of political systems theory and comparative political science . His research focuses on elections and electoral systems , parties and coalitions .

Publications (selection)

  • Linhart, Eric, Johannes Raabe and Patrick Statsch (2019): Mixed-member proportional electoral systems - the best of both worlds? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 29 (1): 21-40.
  • Raabe, Johannes and Eric Linhart (2018): Which electoral systems succeed at providing proportionality and concentration? Promising designs and risky tools, European Political Science Review 10 (2): 167-190.
  • Linhart, Eric, Marc Debus and Bernhard Kittel, eds. (2017): Yearbook for Action and Decision Theory, Volume 10 . Wiesbaden, Springer VS.
  • Raabe, Johannes and Eric Linhart (2015): Does substance matter? A model of qualitative portfolio allocation and application to German state governments between 1990 and 2010, Party Politics 21 (3): 481–492.
  • Shikano, Susumu and Eric Linhart (2010): Coalition-formation as a result of policy and office motivations in the German federal states: An empirical estimate of the weighting parameters of both motivations, Party Politics 16 (1): 111-130.
  • Linhart, Eric and Susumu Shikano (2009): A basic tool set for a generalized directional model, Public Choice 140 (1–2): 85–104.
  • Henning, Christian HCA, Eric Linhart and Susumu Shikano, eds. (2009): Party competition, voter behavior and coalition formation . Baden-Baden, Nomos.
  • Linhart, Eric and Franz U. Pappi (2009): Formation of coalitions between office and political motivation. Construction of an interdependent utility function, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 50 (1): 23–49.
  • Linhart, Eric, Franz U. Pappi and Ralf Schmitt (2008): The proportional division of ministries in German coalition governments: the accepted norm or the exploitation of strategic advantages ?, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49 (1): 46–67.
  • Linhart, Eric (2007): Rational voting as a reaction to coalition signals using the example of the 2005 Bundestag election, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 48 (3): 461–484.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Eric Linhart at the TU Chemnitz. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Main research areas of Eric Linhart. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Linhart, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim