Martin Sebaldt

Martin Sebaldt (born February 11, 1961 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a German political scientist . He teaches as a professor at the University of Regensburg .

Live and act

School and military

After school and Abitur (1980) in Bad Reichenhall, Sebaldt was a temporary soldier until 1982 and was trained as a mortar officer. After numerous military exercises, he was most recently employed as a staff officer and lecturer at the command academy of the Bundeswehr and is now a colonel in the reserve.

Education

In 1982 he began studying political science, modern history and sociology at the universities of Passau (winter semester 1982 to summer semester 1984, winter semester 1986 to winter semester 1987), Munich (winter semester 1984 to summer semester 1985) and Cambridge (October 1985 to June 1986). In the winter semester of 1987 he completed his studies as a Magister Artium (grade: very good; examination focus in political science: British parliamentarism and international comparison of parliamentarism). He then worked at the Chair of Political Science (Professorship Heinrich Oberreuter ). Sebaldt was a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (study grant ) and the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (graduate grant ) and was in the summer semester 1991 with a thesis on the thematising function of the opposition. The parliamentary minority of the German Bundestag is awarded a doctorate as an innovative force in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany (magna cum laude).

In the summer semester of 1996, he completed his habilitation in the overall discipline of political science.

job

On July 31, 1996, Sebaldt was appointed private lecturer at the University of Passau and took up a position as senior assistant at the Chair of Political Science I. From the 1997 winter semester he was in charge of the professorship for political science, especially Political Systems, of Ursula Hoffmann-Lange at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and was Otto von Freising visiting professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in the 2001 winter semester .

In the summer semester of 2002, Sebaldt represented Carl Böhret's chair in political science at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Passau on September 1, 2002.

Since the summer semester of 2003, he has held the chair for comparative political science (focus on Western Europe) at the University of Regensburg and was appointed to the same position on July 22nd of that year. The appointment as full professor followed on October 1st.

Awards

• Science award of the German Bundestag for the habilitation thesis (1997)

Publications

• The thematizing function of the opposition. The parliamentary minority of the German Bundestag as an innovative force in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1992.
• Catholicism and Religious Freedom. The Center Party's motion for tolerance in the German Reichstag . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1994.
• Organized pluralism. Field of forces, self-image and political work of German interest groups . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 (also habilitation thesis University of Passau 1996).
• Transformation of association democracy. The modernization of the system of organized interests in the USA . West German Publishing House, Wiesbaden 2001.
• With Heinrich Oberreuter and Uwe Kranenpohl (eds.): The German Bundestag in Transition. Results of recent parliamentarianism research . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001 (2nd extended edition 2002).
• Parliamentarism in the age of European integration. On the logic and dynamics of political decision-making processes in the democratic multi-level system of the EU . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2002.
• (Ed.): Sustainable Development - Utopia or Realistic Vision? Career and future of a development strategy . Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2002.
• With Alexander Straßner : Associations in the Federal Republic of Germany. An introduction . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004.
• With Alexander Straßner (ed.): Classics of association research . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006.
• The power of parliaments. Functions and performance profiles of national representative bodies in the old democracies of the world . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009.
• With Henrik Gast (ed.): Political leadership in western government systems. An international comparison of theory and practice . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010.
• With Gerhard Hopp and Benjamin Zeitler (eds.): The CSU. Structural change, modernization and challenges of a people's party . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010.
• With Alexander Straßner (ed.): Uprising and democracy. Counterinsurgency as a normative and practical challenge . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.
• Pathology of democracy. Defects, causes and therapy of the modern state . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015.
• With Andreas Friedel, Sabine Fütterer and Sarah Schmid (eds.): Rise and fall of western rule. On the basic problem of global politics as reflected in modern classics . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016.
• Not ready for defense. The cardinal problems of the German armed forces, the revelation oath of the White Paper and the ways out of danger. Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Sebaldt in the catalog of the German National Library