Michael Hermann (political scientist)

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Michael Hermann (born September 9, 1971 in Huttwil ) is a Swiss geographer and political scientist . He is the head of the sotomo research center and teaches at the Institute of Geography at the University of Zurich .

Life

Switzerland political map
Political spider profile

Hermann grew up in Huttwil in Bern and attended grammar school in Langenthal . At the University of Zurich, where he 2006 on the Department of Geography 'values change and space " doctorate , he studied geography, economics and history .

Services

In 1998, as a student, Hermann published the study Ivory Tower or Think Tank together with two colleagues, Heiri Leuthold and Philippe Sablonier . After obtaining his diploma as a geographer , he and Heiri Leuthold founded the research group sotomo - social topology and modernization at the Institute of Geography at the University of Zurich , which they later made an independent company.

With the publication of the Atlas of Political Landscapes: An ideological portrait of Switzerland and the development of the political spider profiles that serve to visualize political attitudes, Hermann started his career as a commentator on federal politics in newspapers, radio and television. Since 2004 he has published the “Left-Right-Rating” in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung annually ; since 2009 he has been writing a column on political issues for the newspapers Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund . He and sotomo have been conducting election surveys for SRG since 2016 . He teaches at the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich, and until 2017 also at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Hermann is the author of socio-spatial studies, for example on immigration and population development and parliamentary and party analyzes .

Publications

  • With Heiri Leuthold , Philippe Sablonier (eds.): Ivory tower or think tank: ideas for a university with a future. Chronos, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905312-60-3 .
  • With Heiri Leuthold: Atlas of Political Landscapes: An ideological portrait of Switzerland. vdf Hochschulverlag AG at the ETH Zurich, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7281-2901-1 .
  • Concordance in the Crisis - Ideas for Revitalization . NZZ Libro, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-732-7 .
  • What holds Switzerland together. Four essays on politics and society in a strange country. Zytglogge, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-7296-0918-1 ( about the book ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Michel Guillaume: Michael Hermann: "Les Suisses ont une peau de bébé." Interview in: Le Temps from January 7, 2017.
  2. SRG SSR awards new orders for trend surveys and projections. In: presseportal.ch from May 12, 2016.