Michael Weigl (political scientist)

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Michael Weigl (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German political scientist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , Weigl first turned to journalism. He completed a traineeship at Wolnzacher Anzeiger and then worked as an editor at Donaukurier in Ingolstadt . From 1994 on he studied Bavarian State History, Modern and Contemporary History and Political Science at the University of Munich . In 1999 he obtained his Magister Artium degree . He was at the 2002 Institute of Bavarian History at LMU to Dr. phil. PhD . In 2003 he was awarded the Michael Doeberl Prize for his doctoral thesis .

Until March 2013 he was Werner Weidenfeld's research assistant and head of the Germany research group at the Center for Applied Political Research .

After Werner Weidenfeld left the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut in March 2013 and Klaus H. Goetz succeeded him, Weigl remained as a research assistant at his chair for Political Systems and European Integration. Since October 2014 he has been working as an academic civil servant at the Chair of Political Science at the University of Passau .

His academic focus is on party and election research as well as Bavarian state politics. He also conducts research on issues of identity politics, in particular on German-Czech relations.

Publications

  • The CSU. Actors, decision-making processes and content of a party at a crossroads. (= Series of publications “The Political Parties of the Federal Republic of Germany” ). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8329-5298-3 .
  • Czechs and Germans as Neighbors: Traces of History in Border Regional Identities. With contributions by Václav Houžvička and Lukáš Novotný and a foreword by Werner Weidenfeld . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3316-6 .
  • The picture of Bavaria by the representatives of Austria in Munich 1918–1938. Diplomatic and consular reporting against the background of Bavarian-Austrian relations. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Munich 2002 under the title: Observations from a “sensitive” post. European University Theses, Series 3, History and its Auxiliary Sciences Volume 1013. Lang, Frankfurt / M. / Berlin u. a. 2005, ISBN 978-3-631-53344-4 .
  • With Lars C. Colschen and Daniel von Hoyer: professionals behind the scenes: bureaucratic regimes in the international process towards German unity. Series of publications by the Research Group Germany Volume 13, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-933456-22-9 .

editor

  • With Manuela Glaab (ed.): Politics and government in Bavaria. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-16037-5 .
  • With Manuela Glaab, Werner Weidenfeld (Eds.): Deutsche Kontraste: 1990–2010; Politics - economy - society - culture. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39279-0 .
  • Consequential Neighborhood? Traces of GDR foreign policy in German-Czech relations. Lit, Hamburg Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-8552-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr. Michael Weigl. Head of Research Group Germany. Biogram. (No longer available online.) Center for Applied Policy Research, archived from the original on October 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cap-lmu.de
  2. ^ Michael Doeberl Prize , Society of Munich Regional Historians
personal data
SURNAME Weigl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich