Ferdinand Müller-Rommel

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Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (* 1952 in Hamburg ) is a German political scientist with a focus on research in the field of comparative party and government research.

education and profession

He studied political science and German at the University of Tübingen and graduated in 1976 with a "Master of Arts" (MA) in political science from the University of Florida (Gainesville / USA). This was followed by a doctorate at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor / Michigan) and a doctorate at the Otto-Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin (1981).

After working as a political advisor in the Federal Chancellery (Bonn), Müller-Rommel first became a research assistant , then a university lecturer at the University of Lüneburg, where he completed his habilitation in 1992 on the subject of "Green parties in Western Europe". In 2000 he was offered a chair for “Comparison of Political Systems and Policy Fields” at the University of Düsseldorf . Just three years later he moved back to Lüneburg to take on the new chair for comparative political science. From 2005 to 2018 head of the Center for Democracy Research (ZDEMO) he founded at Leuphana University Lüneburg .

Ferdinand Müller-Rommel received fellowships and visiting professorships at the European University Institute (Florence / IT), at Harvard University (Cambridge / USA), at the University of New England (Armidale, AUS), at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, USA) ) and at the University of California, Irvine (USA). He was Executive Member and Vice President of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (1994–2000) and Vice President of Leuphana University Lüneburg from 1994–1998 and 2006–2012. He is a member of the editorial board of numerous national and international peer review journals, as well as co-editor of the "ECPR series on Comparative Politics" at Oxford University Press (2013–2019). From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of the DFG Review Board for Social Sciences. From 2016 he was chairman of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) in 2018 . From 2018-2020 he is an Executive Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA).

Works (selection)

Books

  • Party Politics and Democracy in Europe (Ed. With Fernando Casal Bertoa). London / New York: Routledge (West European Politics Series), ISBN 978-1-138-80056-4 .
  • Party Government in the New Europe (Ed. With Hans Keman). London / New York: Routledge, 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-61774-1 .
  • Government systems in Central and Eastern Europe. The new EU countries in comparison (Ed. With Florian Grotz). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16586-8 .
  • Governing New European Democracies (with Jean Blondel and Darina Malova). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 1-4039-9404-8 .
  • Comparative Politics. An introductory study manual (edited with Dirk Berg-Schlosser). Opladen: Leske Verlag (UTB series), 1987 (new edition VS Verlag 2006), ISBN 978-3-8100-3860-9 .
  • Green Parties in National Governments (Ed. With Thomas Poguntke). London: Frank Cass Publisher, 2002. (Translated into Chinese. Shandong University Press 2005), ISBN 978-0-7146-8240-2 .
  • Political Parties in the New Europe (Ed. With Richard Luther). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. (revised paperback edition, 2005), ISBN 978-0-19-925322-7 .
  • Cabinets in Eastern Europe (with Jean Blondel). London: Palgrave / Macmillan Press 2001, ISBN 978-0-333-74879-4 .

Essays

  • Prime Ministerial Careers in the European Union: Does Gender make a Difference ?, in: European Politics and Society, Vol 18, (no.2), pp. 245–262 (with Michelangelo Vercesi).
  • Political Institutions and Policy Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Central Eastern Europe. In: Journal of Public Policy, (2010), Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 23-44. (with Detlef Jahn).
  • Prime Ministerial Staff in Central Eastern European Democracies. In: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, (2008), pp. 256-271.
  • From the typological to the dimensional analysis of parliamentary democracies: conceptual considerations using the example of Central Eastern Europe . In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (2008), pp. 669–694. (with Philipp Harfst and Henrike Schultze). (Awarded the second prize from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the best social science journal article of the year 2008).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Müller-Rommel . Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  2. ^ The Comparative Politics Series . European Consortium of Political Research. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  3. ^ DFG review boards . German Research Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
  4. ^ DVPW - German Association for Political Science: Board of Directors. In: www.dvpw.de. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ IPSA 25th Executive Committee (2018-2020). Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg