Gerd Mielke

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Gerd Mielke (born December 22, 1947 in Schleswig ) is a German political scientist and honorary professor for state politics at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Mainz and a former employee of the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life

Gerd Mielke studied history , political science and English at the University of Freiburg from 1969 to 1974 . Then he was a doctoral student with Dieter Oberndörfer . In 1984 he received his doctorate and was then a research assistant and academic advisor at the Department of Scientific Politics at the University of Freiburg, and since 1980 he has been a member of the “Freiburg Elections Working Group”. From 1992 to 2004 he worked under Prime Minister Rudolf Scharping and Kurt Beck in the State Chancellery of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz, a. a. Head of the “Policy Issues and Government Planning” department and Head of the Policy Issues Unit. From 2004 to 2015 he was head of the department for university relations at the Ministry for Education, Science, Further Education and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2004 he became an honorary professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Mainz. In 2008 he became a Fellow of the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Since 2019 he has been the first chairman of the sponsoring association of the Wiesneck study house for political education in Buchenbach near Freiburg.

research

Gerd Mielke is primarily concerned with researching questions of state politics . This specialization is closely related to his many years of experience in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery. In addition, he researches and teaches in the areas of electoral sociology, party research and the field of research on the development of government centers.

Publications (selection)

  • Representative democracy and its challenges. Notes and attempts at interpretation. In: Research Journal Social Movements, special issue Future of Democracy, 31st vol., 1–2 / 2018, pp. 22–31.
  • Hard work on the edge - the SPD and its renewal after the 2017 federal election . In: spw - magazine for socialist politics and economy. Issue 225, 2/2018, pp. 50–56.
  • A new stage in the German party system? Approaches to the 2017 federal election . In: TUP Theory and Practice of Social Work. 68th volume, issue 4/2017, pp. 244-253.
  • With Ulrich Eith: On the (return) path to "democratic science"? Notes on party and election research . In: Carsten Koschmieder (Ed.): Parties, party systems and political orientations. Current contributions in party research . Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 11–26.
  • with Ulrich Eith: Social structural change and social anchoring of the parties. In: Elmar Wiesendahl (Hrsg.): Parties and social inequality. Wiesbaden 2017, pp. 39–61.
  • Cleavage structures and their cultivation: Regional political culture in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. In: Nikolaus Werz, Martin Koschkar (Hrsg.): Regional political culture in Germany. Case studies and comparative analysis. Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 165–188.
  • "Thick description" as a research strategy. Theoretical and methodological problems in the analysis of informality in state chancelleries. In: Stephan Bröchler, Timo Grunden (Ed.): Informal Politics. Concepts, actors and processes. Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 177–204.
  • Politics in the new framework? Comments on the current situation of the SPD. In: spw - magazine for socialist politics and economy. Issue 205, 6/2014, pp. 20-27.
  • Party systems, social conflicts and complex electoral markets. On the representation and integration ability of political parties. In: Karl-Rudolf Korte, Timo Grunden (Hrsg.): Handbook Government Research . Wiesbaden 2013, pp. 175–186.
  • with Ulrich Eith: referendums versus party democracy? Das Lehrstück Stuttgart 21. In: Uwe Wagschal, Ulrich Eith, Michael Wehner (eds.): The historical change of power: Green-Red in Baden-Württemberg. Baden-Baden 2013, pp. 155–165.
  • State Parliament, Prime Minister and State Government: the government system of Baden-Württemberg. In: Siegfried Frech, Reinhold Weber, Hans-Georg Wehling (eds.): Handbook of state politics. Stuttgart 2011, pp. 34-64.
  • with Ulrich Sarcinelli, Jürgen W. Falter, Bodo Benzner (eds.) Politics in Rhineland-Palatinate. Society, State and Democracy. Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Member parties in the wake of Americanization. In: Uwe Jun, Oskar Niedermayer, Elmar Wiesendahl (eds.): Future of the member party. Opladen / Farmington Hills 2009, pp. 53-69.
  • I'll get by with a little help from my friends. On the relationship between parties and civic engagement. In: Daniel Dettling (Ed.): Parties in civil society. Wiesbaden 2005.
  • Adieu les enfants - The SPD on the way into the unknown. In: Berlin Republic. 3/2003.
  • with Ulrich Eith (Ed.): Social conflicts and party systems. Country and regional studies. Wiesbaden 2001.
  • with Ulrich Sarcinelli, Jürgen W. Falter, Bodo Benzner (eds.): Political culture in Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 2000.
  • Social change and political dominance in Baden-Württemberg. A political-scientific-statistical analysis of the relationship between social structure and voting behavior in a rural region. Duncker et al. Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-06204-3 (dissertation).

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personal data
SURNAME Mielke, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig