Margit Mayer
Margarita "Margit" Mayer (born February 15, 1949 ) is a German political scientist. She is professor emeritus for political science at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin .
Life
Mayer studied political science and received her doctorate in 1977 from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where she also completed her habilitation in 1987. She has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , University of California, Santa Cruz and at the New School for Social Research , New York .
Since 1987 she has been a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, and since 1990 she has been a professor at the JF-Kennedy Institute. She retired at the end of May 2014.
Focus of work
Mayer's focus is on US parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, new social movements in the USA and Germany, urban development and urban development policy, the restructuring of the welfare state, and homelessness in the USA and Germany from a comparative perspective.
Fonts
- S. Manning, M. Mayer (Ed.): Practices of informal economy. Exploratory studies from Berlin and North American cities. Working Paper 2. JFKi Dept. of Politics, 2004.
Together with H. Heinelt she is co-editor of Modernisierung der Kommunalpolitik , Opladen 1997 and (together with P. Hamel and H. Lustiger-Thaler) of Urban Movements in a Global Environment . Thousand Oaks 1998.
Magazines
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Advisory Board)
- Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (Advisory Board)
- Urban Affairs Review (Editor)
- prokla, journal for critical social science (member of the editorial board)
Web links
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mayer, Margit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer, Margarita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1949 |