Karl-Rudolf Korte

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Karl-Rudolf Korte (born November 15, 1958 in Hagen ) is a German political scientist . Since 2002 he has been a professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the Duisburg campus and since 2006 director of the NRW School of Governance . He appears regularly in the media as a guest for election analysis .

Life and academic career

Karl-Rudolf Korte studied political science , German and pedagogy in Mainz and Tübingen . In 1983 he passed the state examination and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD at the University of Mainz. After completing his studies, Korte worked as a research assistant and head of several research projects at the University of Mainz until 1995. He then took part in setting up the Center for Applied Political Research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1997 , Korte completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was awarded the prize for the best habilitation thesis.

After substitute professorships at the Universities of Trier, Cologne, Munich and Duisburg, he has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen at the chair “Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and Modern State Theories” since 2002.

He has been the director of the NRW School of Governance since 2006. From 2010 to 2017 he was also dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Korte was chairman of the German Society for Political Science from 2013 to 2015 . He is the managing editor of the magazine for political science and the editorial board of the magazine Politik & Kommunikation .

Election analysis and the public

Karl-Rudolf Korte, in the ZDF election studio next to Bettina Schausten for the 2014 European elections

Korte became publicly known through his political analyzes in daily newspapers, magazines and television. As an election expert, he mainly appears on the public broadcasters ZDF , WDR and Phoenix . One focus of his research is on the relationships between party strategies, media and voter behavior.

In November 2006, the magazine Unicum Beruf in cooperation with the auditing company KPMG named Korte professor of the year in the category humanities, social and cultural studies, who works as a "pioneer for careers" and the promotion of young talent. He offers his students a network that brings them into constant contact with companies, so the reasoning of the initiators.

In the refugee debate in 2015, he contradicted the view that Angela Merkel had “lost touch with the mood in the population” and described her stance as “humanitarian and straightforward”. The demand made by today's Prime Minister Markus Söder and other politicians for an upper limit for the influx of refugees is "purely symbolic politics " and "absurd".

Fonts (selection)

  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Faces of Power. About the creative potential of the federal presidents. An essay. Frankfurt / M .: Campus Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-593-51038-5
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Jan Dinter: Citizens, media and politics in the Ruhr area. Attitudes, expectations, explanations. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-28069-7
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: The 2017 Bundestag election. Analysis of election, party, communication and government research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-25050-8
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Jan Schoofs, Niko Switek, Kristina Weissenbach, Dennis Michels: Party democracy in motion. Organization and decision-making patterns of the German parties in comparison. Series: The political parties of the Federal Republic of Germany, final volume. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018, ISBN 978-3-8329-7974-4 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Elections in Germany. Bpb, Federal Agency for Civic Education: Bonn 2017 (9th edition)
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Niko Switek, Andreas Blätte, Christoph Bieber (eds.): Governing in the immigration society . Impetus for the integration debate from the perspective of government research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-15714-2
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte (ed.): Politics in uncertain times. Wars, crises and new antagonisms. Publications of the German Society for Political Science (DGfP). Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016 (Volume 34), ISBN 978-3-8487-3300-2 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte (Ed.): Elections in North Rhine-Westphalia: Local elections - State elections - Bundestag elections - European elections. Schwalbach / Ts .: Wochenschau Verlag 2016 (4th edition), ISBN 978-3-7344-0223-4 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte (Ed.): Emotions and Politics - Reasons, Concepts and Practice Areas of Political Science Emotion Research. Publications of the German Society for Political Science (DGfP). Baden-Baden: Nomos 2015 (Volume 33), ISBN 978-3-8487-2246-4 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte (Ed.): The Federal Parliament Election 2013: Analyzes of Election, Party, Communication and Government Research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-02914-2 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Marvin Bender: Elections. Schwalbach am Taunus: Wochenschau-Verl. 2013, ISBN 978-3-89974-867-3 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Elections in Germany. Bonn: Bpb, Federal Agency for Political Education 2013 (8th edition), ISBN 978-3-89331-953-4 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Timo Grunden (Ed.): Handbook Government Research . Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-16059-7 .
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Jan Treibel (Ed.): How do parties decide? Processes of internal party decision-making in Germany. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-7736-8
  • Ursula von der Leyen, Karl-Rudolf Korte (Ed.): Who will do the work tomorrow? Berlin: Berlin Univ. Press 2011, ISBN 978-3-86280-017-9
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte (Ed.): The Bundestag election 2009: Analyzes of election, party, communication and government research Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: The Federal Chancellery in Organizational Analysis. Informality as a success criterion . In: Heinz-Jürgen Dahme / Norbert Wohlfahrt (eds.): System analysis as a political reform strategy Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Strategy and Government: Political Management under the Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty . In: Joachim Raschke / Ralf Tils (ed.): Strategy in political science. Outlines of a new research field Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Manuel Fröhlich : Politics and governance in Germany, structures, processes, decisions. Paderborn u. a .: Schöningh / UTB 2009 (3rd edition).
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Representation and decision-making policy . In: Sascha Michel / Heiko Girnth (Hrsg.): Polit-Talkshows - Bühnen der Macht. A look behind the scenes. Bonn: Bouvier 2009.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. Schwalbach / Ts .: Wochenschau-Verlag 2010 (2nd edition).
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: Elections in Germany. Bonn: Bpb, Federal Agency for Political Education 2009 (6th edition), ISBN 978-3-89331-953-4 .
  • Stefanie Delhees, Karl-Rudolf Korte, Florian Schartau, Niko Switek and Kristina Weissenbach: Welfare State Reform Communication. Western European parties looking for a majority. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2008.
  • Nico Grasselt, Karl-Rudolf Korte: Leadership in politics and economy - instruments, styles and techniques. Studies by the NRW School of Governance . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2007.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Martin Florack, Timo Grunden: Governing in North Rhine-Westphalia. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2006.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Gerhard Hirscher: Information and decision-making, communication management of the political leadership. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2003.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte: “The Chancellor has the floor”, an analysis of the major government declarations from Adenauer to Schröder. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2002.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Werner Weidenfeld (ed.): Germany trend book, facts and orientations. Opladen: Leske and Budrich 2001.
  • Karl-Rudolf Korte, Gerhard Hirscher: The rise and fall of governments, the acquisition of power and the erosion of power in Western democracies. Munich: Olzog Verlag 2001.

Web links

Commons : Karl-Rudolf Korte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAZ: Research with the State Chancellery , May 13, 2010.
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070123203527/http://www.unicum.de/evo/8289_1 .
  3. ↑ a b http://www.europeonline-magazine.eu/politologe-korte-nach-terror-in-paris-gegen-neue-ngste-kaempfeninterview-thomas-lanig-dpa_423375.html .
personal data
SURNAME Korte, Karl-Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen