Frank Nullmeier

Frank Nullmeier (born June 10, 1957 in Duisburg ) is a professor of political science at the University of Bremen and head of the theory and constitution of the welfare state department of the Center for Social Policy and was one of the members of the Rürup Commission .

biography

Nullmeier studied political science, economics, sociology, public law and philosophy at the University of Hamburg from 1975 to 1981 , where he finished his studies with a diploma in political science (thesis: decentralization as a political concept of the ecological movement ). After working on the preparation of a financial expert opinion on behalf of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in early 1981, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Public Finance at the University of Hamburg ( Gunther Engelhardt ) until 1985 and worked on teaching and research projects, including on "budget planning in a business game" With.

From 1985 he was a lecturer in political science at the University of Hamburg, which he held until 1988. From 1987 on he worked as a research assistant in the DFG research project The benefits of statutory pension insurance for the labor market in demographic, social and economic change and Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hanover .

In 1990 he was at the University of Hamburg with the work of Max Weber on the concepts of a knowledge and intelligence politics Dr. rer. pole. PhD . After that he was a university assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg until 1997. In 1998 he was with the work between envy and social appreciation - to a political theory of the welfare state at the University of Hamburg habilitation .

In November 1996 he and Friedbert W. Rüb received the Heinrich Lönendonk Medal of the Association of Social Law Teachers for the text The Transformation of Social Policy - From the Welfare State to the Security State .

From 1997 to 2000 he was the scientific director and manager of the University Development project at the University of Hamburg, which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation . In the same year he took over the chair for social policy at the University of Konstanz (Professor Alber).

From 2000 to 2002 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Essen, since 2002 he has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen and Head of the Theory and Constitution of the Welfare State of the Center for Social Policy. Nullmeier has also been a member of the Rürup Commission since 2002.

Act

While Nullmeier at the beginning of his academic career mainly dealt with financial science issues and then turned his interest, among other things, to the consideration of the party system, his focus has been on the consideration, analysis and reform of the welfare state for several years .

Nullmeier has made a name for himself above all in relation to the discussion about civil society and, since 2002, also in the context of his work in the Commission for Sustainability in the Financing of Social Security Systems (so-called "Rürup Commission").

He also proposed a reform of the financing of the health system through a synthesis of income-related contributions and flat-rate premiums. These amounts should be collected directly by the tax offices, which should in return issue the health insured with a voucher with which they could be insured with a health insurance company of their choice. With this system, Nullmeier hopes for undistorted competition among the health insurance companies.

The focus of his academic work can be roughly defined in the critical analysis of the welfare state, which he describes both in very general terms (as in “Political Theory of the Welfare State”, 2000) and in great detail (as in “Micro-Policy Analysis - Ethnographic Political Research am Example University Policy ”, 2003).

Focus of work

• Welfare state theory
• Social, especially old-age pension policy, as well as policy research
• Administrative science
• political theory
• Party research

Bibliography (selection)

• Frank Nullmeier, Friedbert W. Rüb: The transformation of social policy. From the welfare state to the security state . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• Frank Nullmeier (editor together with Ansgar Klein): mass, power, emotions . West German publishing house, Opladen 1999.
• Frank Nullmeier: Political Theory of the Welfare State . Frankfurt am Main and New York 2000.
• Frank Nullmeier (together with Tanja Pritzlaff and Achim Wiesner): Micro-Policy-Analysis. Ethnographic political research using the example of university politics . Frankfurt am Main and New York 2003.

Web links

• Homepage of Frank Nullmeier at the University of Bremen
• Member profile of Frank Nullmeier at the Green Academy
• Literature by and about Frank Nullmeier in the catalog of the German National Library

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1. ^ Nullmeier, Frank 1990: From Max Weber to concepts of a knowledge and intelligence politics, Hamburg (diss.), OCLC 664726626