Helmut K. Anheier

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Helmut K. Anheier (2016)

Helmut K. Anheier (born January 4, 1954 ) is a German-American professor of sociology and former president of the Hertie School in Berlin. Until September 2019 he was also a professor at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology at the University of Heidelberg , where he was also the scientific director of the Center for Social Investment and Innovation . Anheier's main research areas are civil society, social innovations, organizational theory, governance and policy research, and social science methods and indicators.

biography

Anheier studied sociology and economics at the University of Trier (1976-80) and received an MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University (1981, 1982, 1986). At Yale he studied under Juan Linz , Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell, Scott A. Boorman and Charles Perrow and was particularly concerned with social network analysis and organizational sociology. He was also a research associate at the local program on Nonprofit Organizations , where he carried out comparative work on the subjects of non-profit, philanthropy and NGOs. Anheier's dissertation was one of the first to apply comparative block model analysis to institutional development based on field research in Nigeria, Senegal and Togo (1983-4). As part of a DFG project at the University of Cologne , he conducted research in the mid-1980s on the informal economic sector and the innovative behavior of small businesses in Nigeria and Ghana.

In 1986, Anheier became Assistant Professor of Comparative Sociology and Methods at Rutgers University . In 1988 he moved to the United Nations as Social Affairs Officer and worked for the International Narcotics Control Board on statistical estimates of global demand and supply of controlled narcotics. When he returned to Rutgers University in 1990, he also became co-director of the Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project at Johns Hopkins University. This project was one of the largest social science projects of the 1990s and examined the economic and social relevance of nonprofit organizations. In 1998 Anheier was first appointed Reader then Centennial Professor (2001-2016) at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Together with his mentors Ralf Dahrendorf and Anthony Giddens , he founded and directed the Center for Civil Society there, which dealt in particular with the role and potential of European civil societies. Anheier accepted an appointment as Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at the University of California in 2011 . Here he again founded a Center for Civil Society, but this time with a focus on philanthropy and globalization. During his leave of absence from the University of California, he took over the scientific direction of the Center for Social Investment and Innovation at the University of Heidelberg from 2006 . A little later he became professor of sociology at the Max Weber Institute at the University of Heidelberg, before he also took on the role of scientific director of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin in 2009 .

Initially, Anheier published mostly in the field of comparative sociology and social network analysis. From the 90s he published more in the field of nonprofit organizations and civil society, also with a focus on organization and management issues. Since 2010 he has mostly worked in three areas: the role of philanthropic foundations, social innovations and governance research (especially governance indicators).

In total, Anheier published around 450 academic publications, including articles in top international journals for sociology and applied social sciences. His textbook Nonprofit Organizations is considered a standard work in this area and has won the American Academy of Management's “best book” award. He has also received national and international awards for his work on civil society and philanthropy. However, not only these books, but also the volume "When Things Go Wrong" (Sage) and the Global Studies Encyclopedia (with Mark Juergensmeyer, Sage) became reference books for universities in the USA in Europe. Recent publications include special issues of magazines on hybrid organizations and social innovation and US philanthropy (Brookings Press).

Anheier played a decisive role in the conceptual and methodological founding of nonprofit and civil society research through publications such as the one on " Social origins theory " (with Lester Salamon), on the " Law on Nonprofit Complexity " or " creative philanthropy " (with Diana Leat) . He was one of the founders of the ISTR ( International Society for Third-Sector Research ), initiated the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions as part of the national accounts, founded three scientific journals, Voluntas , Journal of Civil Society and Global Perspectives and several series of books (i.a. The Culture and Globalization Series Vol. 1-5 (Sage); Global Civil Society (Oxford), Hertie School of Governance Reports (Oxford University Press)).

Anheier has both German and American citizenship and is married to the artist and designer Emilie Birlo-Anheier.

Publications (selection)

  • Helmut K. Anheier . Foundations in Germany 1: One location. Springer VS, Wiesbaden (2017). ISBN 978-3658133689
  • Helmut K. Anheier . Foundations in Germany 2: Areas of activity. Springer VS, Wiesbaden (2017). ISBN 978-3658117504
  • Helmut K. Anheier . Foundations in Germany 3: Portraits and Themes. Springer VS, Wiesbaden (2017). ISBN 978-3658133832
  • Helmut K. Anheier . Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management and Policy. 2nd edition, fully revised and expanded. New York, NY, London: Routledge (2014).
  • David Hammack and Helmut K . Anheier Foundations and American Society. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution Press (2009).
  • Helmut K. Anheier . Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management and Policy. New York, London: Routledge (2nd edition; fully revised and expanded, 2010).
  • Helmut K. Anheier and Diana Leat . Creative Philanthropy. New York, London: Routledge (2006).
  • Helmut K. Anheier and Regina List . International Dictionary of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations. London: Taylor & Francis (2005).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ http://www.lse.ac.uk/CCS/home.aspx
  4. ↑ http://www.soz.uni-heidelberg.de/
  5. ↑ http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book8839
  6. ↑ http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230735
  7. ^ Helmut K. Anheier and Gorgi Krlev. “Welfare Regimes, Policy Reforms, and Hybridity” American Behavioral Scientist, October; Vol. 58, No. 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ https://www.istr.org
  9. ↑ http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/11266
  10. ↑ http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcis20/current#.VICMh8lMQyQ
personal data
SURNAME Anheier, Helmut K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1954