Juan Linz

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Juan José Linz (born December 24, 1926 in Bonn ; † October 1, 2013 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was a German-Spanish political scientist . He was a Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute.

Life

Juan J. Linz was born on December 24, 1926 in Bonn to a German father and a Spanish mother. In 1932 the family moved to Spain , where he studied economics , political science and law after graduating from the University of Madrid .

Graduated successfully and award-winning in 1950 , followed by a further study of sociology at Columbia University , New York , where he then obtained his doctorate with a study of the German elections.

As a teaching member of Columbia University, from then on he had a noticeable influence on Spanish sociology with a number of significant empirical studies that were carried out in collaboration with Spanish sociologists, some of which followed Linz to New York. In 1958 Linz returned to Spain and conducted a study on Spanish economic life at the newly founded Autonomous University of Madrid. In 1961 he moved back to New York as a lecturer at Columbia University.

In 1968 he accepted a position at Yale University in New Haven (USA). In addition, Linz a. a. at the universities of Berkeley , Stanford , Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and at the European University Institute in Florence .

Research priorities

Juan J. Linz is known in political science for his theories about totalitarian and authoritarian systems, into which he divided dictatorships . Linz also distinguished itself through extensive research into structures of rule and the transition from autocratic systems to democracies .

Linz dealt with a wide range of topics, including studies of social structures and political parties in Germany, economic life and the balance of power in Spain, the structure and dynamics of social groups on the Iberian Peninsula, and much more. His works on the sociology of youth and the sociology of fascism in Spain are particularly well known.

His work was an important point of reference during the Spanish democratization process after the end of the Franco regime in 1975. His studies on Spanish politics included controversial topics such as terrorism or regional nationalism , and have had a great influence on the understanding of public life there to this day.

His theories on the classification of authoritarian regimes and the process of transition from dictatorship to democracy have been applied by numerous researchers to case studies in Latin America and Europe . Linz is the author of numerous works on the problems involved in the transformation of authoritarian regimes into democracies in southern Europe, South America and post-communist countries.

His study on the political sociologist Robert Michels , published in 2006, is considered an important contribution to the history of political science.

Fonts

  • Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes , Berliner Debatte Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931703-43-6 .
  • Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes , 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931703-88-6 .
  • Authoritarian Regime , in: Dieter Nohlen (Ed.): Dictionary State and Politics , Munich 1996, pp. 40–43.
  • together with Alfred Stepan : Problems of democratic transition and consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe , Baltimore 1996, ISBN 0-8018-5158-0 .
  • Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes . Edited and translated by Raimund Krämer . 3. Edition. Potsdam text books 4. WeltTrends , Potsdam 2009. ISBN 978-3-941880-00-9
  • An Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Spain . Edited and translated by Raimund Krämer and Christoph Sebastian Widdau. Potsdam text books 13. WeltTrends , Potsdam 2011. ISBN 978-3-941880-35-1
  • Robert Michels, Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy , ed. by Houchang E. Chehabi, 2006, ISBN 1412833418

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallce Juan José Linz, gran experto en sociología política
  2. ↑ The publishing political scientist Houchang E. Chehabi describes him as a brilliant historian of political science .

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personal data
SURNAME Linz, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linz, Juan José (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Spanish political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2013
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut