Markus Friday

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Markus Freitag (born November 11, 1968 in Waldshut-Tiengen ) is a full professor of political sociology at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bern .

Life

Markus Freitag studied political science, economics and German at the University of Heidelberg (D). There he obtained a Magister Artium degree in 1995. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Bern, where he also received his doctorate in 1999. As a result, research and teaching stays took him to the European Institute in Basel, the ETH Zurich and the University of Essex (GB). Friday then worked as a lecturer at the University of Konstanz and as a research assistant at the University of Bern. Between 2004 and 2005 he was junior professor for comparative political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Before moving to Bern, Freitag had held the chair for comparative politics at the University of Konstanz since the end of 2005. Since August 2011 director at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bern and holder of the professorship for political sociology.

His research focuses on the social consequences of direct democracy, aspects of social relationships and tolerance as well as political and social participation in Switzerland and in international comparison. Much of his work deals with the concept of social capital. In addition, in cooperation with the Swiss Charitable Society (SGG), the Migros Culture Percentage and the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Freitag is responsible for the permanent scientific monitoring of voluntary work in Switzerland (Volunteer Monitor Switzerland).

Fonts

  • Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Political systems in comparison. A social science data manual . Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 1997 (together with Klaus Armingeon).
  • Politics and currency. An international comparison . Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna: Paul Haupt, 1999.
  • Direct democracy. Inventories and effects in an international comparison . Munich: LIT, 2007 (publisher together with Uwe Wagschal).
  • Social capital. Basics and application . Special issue No. 47 of the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2007 (publisher together with Axel Franzen).
  • Volunteer Monitor Switzerland 2007 . Zurich: Seismo, 2007 (together with Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Marc Bühlmann).
  • The democracies of the German federal states. Political institutions in comparison . Stuttgart: UTB (publisher together with Adrian Vatter), 2008.
  • Comparative subnational analyzes for Germany. Institutions, State Activities and Political Cultures . Munich: LIT, 2010 (publisher together with Adrian Vatter).
  • Volunteer Monitor Switzerland 2010 . Zurich: Seismo, 2010 (together with Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Richard Traunmüller and Birte Gundelach).
  • Civil society in Switzerland. Analysis of club engagement at local level. Zurich: Seismo, 2012 (together with Richard Traunmüller, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Kathrin Ackermann).
  • (Ed.) The social capital of Switzerland. Zurich: NZZ Libro, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Friday, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut-Tiengen