Michael Minkenberg

Michael W. Minkenberg (born March 27, 1959 in Bebra ) is a German political scientist and holder of the chair for comparative political science at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Minkenberg studied Political Science, Middle and New History and Economics in Heidelberg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Bonn , Cologne and Washington, DC (Master of Arts in Government). In 1989 he studied with Klaus von Beyme at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a political science dissertation on Neoconservatism and New Rights in the USA. to the Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1989 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , from 1991 to 1995 visiting professor (DAAD) at the Department of Government at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen with the thesis The new radical right in comparison. USA, France, Germany (reviewers: Walter Euchner , Wolfgang Gessenharter , Peter Lösche and Rudolf von Thadden ).

In 1997/98 he was a deputy chair at the Institute for Political Science in Heidelberg. In 1998 he moved to the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). In 2003 he was visiting professor at Columbia University and New York University in New York. From 2007 to 2010 he held the Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at New York University.

From 1999 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2007 he was Vice President for International Affairs at the University of Frankfurt (Oder). From 2000 to 2007 he was spokesman for the “Comparative Political Science” section of the German Association for Political Science . He is also a member of the Standing Group “Extremism and Democracy” in the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the American Political Science Association (APSA).

He is u. a. Member of the editorial board of the journal Comparative European Studies .

Fonts (excerpt)

• New Conservatism and New Rights in the United States. Newer conservative groups and currents in the context of social and cultural change (= Nomos-Universitätsschriften / Politik . Vol. 14). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2164-4 .
• The new radical right in comparison. USA, France, Germany . Opladen u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-531-13227-X .
• with Ulrich Willems (ed.): Politics and Religion (= Political Quarterly Journal . Special Issue 33). Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13718-2
• with Sabine Kropp (Ed.): Comparisons in Political Science . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-13876-6 .
• The radical right in Europe. An overview . Bertelsmann Stiftung Verlag, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-86793-028-4 .
• Historical Legacies and the Radical Right in Post. Cold War Central and Eastern Europe (= Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society . Vol. 100). Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-8382-0124-5 .
• (Ed.): Power and Architecture. The Construction of Capitals and the Politics of Space (= Space and Place . Vol. 12). Berghahn Books, Oxford 2014. ISBN 978-1-78238-009-2 .
• (Ed.): Transforming the transformation ?. The East European Radical Right in the Political Process (= Extremism and Democracy ). Routledge, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-83183-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Minkenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Michael Minkenberg at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina