Frank Decker

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Frank Decker, 2014

Frank Decker (* 1964 in Montabaur ) is a German political scientist .

Career

Decker comes from Montabaur in the Westerwald . He studied political science , economics , journalism and public law at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Hamburg . In 1989 he completed his studies as a qualified political scientist and then worked until 2001 as a research assistant, assistant and senior assistant at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. During this time he received his doctorate in 1993 (Dr. rer. Pol.) And finally his habilitation in 1999 , accompanied by Jürgen Hartmann in the Department of Economics and Organizational Sciences. Decker then became a private lecturer in political science there.

Since 2001, Decker Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . From 2002 to 2011 he was managing director of the institute. In 2007 he became a member of the scientific advisory board of the Progressive Center and in 2011, together with Volker Kronenberg, scientific director of the Bonn Academy for Research and Teaching of Practical Politics, founded by Bodo Hombach .

His current research interests are Western systems of government , political parties , populism , federalism, and democracy reform . Decker is often invited to attend television and radio shows on current political issues.

Political commitment

Decker is a longstanding member of the SPD and a member of the party's basic values ​​committee . As part of the European elections in 2014 for the European Parliament, he advertised the then top candidate Martin Schulz as the first signatory of an appeal for supporters on the Internet and in newspaper advertisements .

Publications (selection)

  • Changing party democracy , 2nd edition, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-5087-0 .
  • The USA - A Failing Democracy? , as ed. with Patrick Horst u. Philipp Adorf, Frankfurt a. M. 2018, ISBN 978-3-5935-0959-4 .
  • Escape, transit, asylum. Interdisciplinary perspectives on a European promise , with Ursula Bitzegeio, Sandra Fischer u. Thorsten Stolzenberg, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-801-24242-8 .
  • Right-wing populism , Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-022324-0 .
  • Handbook of the German political parties , as ed. With Viola Neu , 3rd edition, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17994-6 .
  • Europe's end, Europe's beginning. New perspectives for the European Union , as edited by Jürgen Rüttgers , Frankfurt a. M. 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50700-2 .
  • The wrong way of the people's legislation. A pamphlet , Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-8012-0469-3 .
  • Right-wing populism and right-wing extremism in Europe , as ed. With Bernd Henningsen a. Kjetil A. Jakobsen, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1206-9 .
  • Recruitment paths of modern popular parties , with Volker Best u. David Knorr, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86498-820-2 .
  • Democracy reform , Bonn 2014, without ISBN ( online ).
  • Democracy Without Voters? New challenges of political participation , with Marcel Lewandowsky a . Marcel Solar, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8012-0439-6 .
  • The German coalition democracy before the federal election 2013 , as edited with Eckhard Jesse , Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-7728-3 .
  • When the populists come. Contributions to the state of democracy and the party system , Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00801-7 .
  • Parties and party systems in Germany , Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021493-4 .
  • Lost in the New Five-Party System? , with Volker Best, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86872-742-5 (English).
  • Rule in the "party federal state". On the architecture of German politics , Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17681-9 .
  • The Constitution of Europe. Perspectives on European integration , with Marcus Höreth , Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15969-0 .
  • The Direct Election of the Commission President , with Jared Sonnicksen, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-936183-92-4 (English).
  • Populism. Danger to Democracy or Useful Corrective? , as publisher, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14537-1 .
  • Federalism at the crossroads? Options and perspectives for a reform of the federal system , Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14378-6 .
  • The new right-wing populism , Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3936-5 .
  • Parties under pressure. The new right-wing populism in the western democracies , Opladen 2000, ISBN 3-8100-2860-6 .
  • Environmental protection and state failure. A material governability analysis , Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-8100-1267-X .
  • The USA and Democracy in the Third World. Status and effectiveness of a democracy-oriented foreign policy , Mainz 1987, without ISBN.

Web links

Commons : Frank Decker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Decker: Parties under pressure. The new right-wing populism in Western democracies , Opladen 2000, p. 11.
  2. ^ Members of the SPD Fundamental Values ​​Commission , accessed on May 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ The SPD's election announcement in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on May 25, 2014, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Decker, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Montabaur