Norbert Kersting
Norbert Kersting (born March 17, 1961 in Brilon - Alme ) is a German political scientist and professor of "comparative political science with a focus on local and regional politics" at the Institute for Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University .
Life
Norbert Kersting studied in Marburg and Madrid. In 1995 he received his doctorate in Marburg on "Political participation in marginal settlements in Zimbabwe". From 1995 to 2004 he was responsible for quantitative and qualitative political science methods at the Institute for Political Science in Marburg. There he completed his habilitation in 2005 on German and European municipal political and administrative reform. In 2004 he filled the professorship for comparative political science at the University of Koblenz-Landau and from 2004–2006 the professorship for the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany at the University of Kassel . From 2006 to 2010, Norbert Kersting held the DAAD Chair for Democratic Transformation and Regional Integration at the Department of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Since 2011, Kersting has been Professor of Comparative Politics and Local and Regional Policy at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Münster .
Act
1994–1996, Kersting headed an international research project on “Poverty and Democracy. Political participation and selfhelp ”with research stays and representative surveys in Chile, Brazil, the Ivory Coast and Kenya. Since 2009 he has been chairman of the international working group DDD (Direct and Deliberative Democracy) which is organized under the umbrella of the ECPR section Democratic Innovation. From 2000 to 2006, Norbert Kersting was the general secretary of the Research Committee 5 Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics of the International Association of Political Scientists “ IPSA ” and is still on the board of the RC. Since 2015 Norbert Kersting has been the spokesman for the "Internet and Politics of the German Association of Political Scientists DVPW ". He is also President of Research Committee 10 of the International Association of Political Scientists IPSA on "Electronic Democracy". He is on the scientific advisory board of the series: "Law and Constitution in Africa "at Nomos Verlag. Kersting's international comparative research focuses on democratic and administrative innovation (online and offline)
Books (selection)
- 1994: Democracy and Poverty. Political participation and urban lifestyle in Zimbabwe, Münster: Lit– Verlag
- 1996: Urban Poverty. Survival Strategies in the “Third World”. Saarbrücken: Publishing house for development policy
- 2000: Poverty and Democracy - Political Participation and Interest Organization of the Urban Poor in Africa and Latin America. Frankfurt: Campus (joint editing with Dirk Berg-Schlosser)
- 2000: Political control and reform of the state administration. Baden-Baden: Nomos (joint editing with Leo Kißler and Hans Jürgen Lange)
- 2002: Honor or Office? Qualification of civic engagement in the cultural sector. Opladen: Leske and Budrich (joint editorship with Cerstin Gerecht, Karin Brahms, Kerstin Weinbach) (with contributions by Robert Putnam, Amitai Etzioni and others)
- 2003: Reforming local government in Europe. Closing the gap between democracy and efficiency. Opladen: Leske and Budrich (joint editor with Angelika Vetter)
- 2003: Poverty and democracy. Political Participation and Self-Help in Third World Cities. London: ZED Press. (joint editing with Dirk Berg-Schlosser)
- 2004: The Future of Local Democracy. Modernization and reform models. Frankfurt: Campus.
- 2004: Electronic Voting and Democracy. A comparative analysis. London: Palgrave (joint editing with Harald Baldersheim)
- 2005: Democratization and political culture in comparative perspective. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (joint editorship with Lasse Cronqvist) (with contributions by Arend Lijphart, Juan Linz, Charles Ragin, Peter Merkl and others)
- 2008 Political participation. Introduction to dialogue-oriented instruments of political and social participation. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (editor) textbook with contributions by Philippe Schmitter, James Fishkin, Harrison Owen u. a.
- 2009: with Janice Caulfield, Andrew Nickson, Dele Olowu, Hellmut Wollmann: Local governance reform in global perspective. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. Series: Urban and Regional Research International (URI).
- 2009: New nationalism and xenophobia in Africa. in: Africa Spectrum 1 (2009) (guest editor of the special issue)
- 2010: Constitution in transition. Academic input for a new constitution in Zimbabwe. Harare: GTZ
- 2012: Electronic democracy. Toronto: BB publisher. International Political Science IPSA series: The world of political science. (ed.)
- 2012: From model voter to angry citizen. Münster: Aschendorf.
Web links
- Chair for local and regional politics
- RC10 (IPSA): Electronic Democracy
- Competence Center for Sustainable Local Financial Policy
- Literature by and about Norbert Kersting in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
- ↑ RC05 - Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics
- ↑ RC 10 - Electronic Democracy ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.nomos-shop.de/reihenpopup.aspx?reihe=225 Law and Constitution in Africa
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kersting, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brilon-Alme |