Oskar Niedermayer

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Oskar Niedermayer (2014)

Oskar Niedermayer (born August 22, 1952 in Schönau / Odenwald ) is a German political scientist . From 1993 to 2017 he headed the Otto Stammer Center at the Free University of Berlin . He worked as a university professor at the Otto Suhr Institute there. His research focuses on political attitudes and behavior, party research and election research .

Life

Oskar Niedermayer attended elementary school in Schönau from 1959, from which he moved to Hohenstaufengymnasium in Eberbach in 1963, where he passed his Abitur in 1971. In the same year he began studying business administration at the University of Mannheim . In 1973 Oskar Niedermayer changed his subject and studied economics and political science in Mannheim.

He passed the diploma in economics on the topic of analyzing the scientific discussion about the socio-political effects of multinational companies in developing countries with the grade “very good”. In 1982 he was with Max Kaase with the dissertation European parties? On the cross-border interaction of political parties within the European Community for Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. He then completed his habilitation in political science.

In his research and teaching, Oskar Niedermayer focuses on the political system of Germany, comparative government theory (Western Europe and the USA), political sociology, European research and methods of political science.

Scientific career

From 1977 to 1978, Niedermayer was a doctoral student and a certified research assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, where he was a research assistant at the Chair for Political Science and International Comparative Social Research from 1978 to 1983. Also at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Niedermayer was a university assistant from 1983 to 1988 and a university lecturer from 1988 to 1993.

From January 1988 to March 1993 Oskar Niedermayer was director of the Center for European Survey Analyzes and Studies (ZEUS) at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). In the winter semester 1989/90 he had a teaching position at the University of Kaiserslautern . In the winter semester 1991/92 he was a substitute professor at the University of Konstanz with Gerhard Lehmbruch . In the summer semester 1992 and winter semester 1992/93 he was a substitute professor at Klaus von Beyme , Heidelberg University .

Niedermayer has been Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin since April 1993 and began teaching in the 1994/95 winter semester as part of the advanced qualification program for Brandenburg teachers in the field of “Germany's Political System”.

Niedermayer retired in July 2017.

Memberships

Content information about his works

Citizens and Politics

In the book Citizens and Politics by Oskar Niedermayer, he examines the norms and political orientations of citizens. It thus gives a broad overview of the field of political interests and civic emancipation, the behavior of the citizen towards the political leadership level and its institutions, the concept and idea of ​​democracy and the Basic Law. The constitutional reality and the attitude of the population towards their nation and fellow citizens are just as focal points of his research as the different types of political behavior, ie the individually different processing of political information, as well as political participation, i.e. participation in elections and support of parties.

Status and perspectives of party research in Germany

(Ed .; together with R. Stöss). 1993

The book Status and Perspectives of Party Research in Germany was published in 1993 in collaboration with Richard Stöss, who was a private lecturer at the Central Institute for Social Research at the Free University of Berlin in 1993. Deficits, achievements and future tasks of the German parties are among the research fields that are dealt with in this book. The West German Bundestag parties and the structural change in the GDR party system are examined . The role of the parties is presented from a historical perspective and questions about intra-party democracy are examined. He systematically presents the most important aspects of party research and takes stock.

Public opinion on the future shape of the EU

Analyzes of the European Constitutional Debate, Volume 4. 2003

The citizen and his relationship to the European Union, as well as the planned constitution, are the central aspects of the study that Oskar Niedermayer deals with in this book. From a political science perspective, he further examines topics such as closeness to the citizen, citizens 'ideas, and citizens' trust in European institutions. The focus of his analysis is the public opinion of Germans on the European Union and compares it with the other member states of the EU. He sees the strengthening of the European Parliament and the authorization of the EU Parliament to elect the EU Council President as progress towards broad support for the EU from its citizens.

Works

  • 1979: Multinational corporations and developing countries, Königstein / Ts .: Hain.
  • 1983: European parties? On the cross-border interaction of political parties within the European Community, Frankfurt / New York: Campus.
  • 1987: New members in the SPD, Neustadt: Verlag Neue Pfälzer Post (Ed .; together with K. Reif and H. Schmitt).
  • 1989: Inner-party participation, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • 1993: Status and perspectives of party research in Germany, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (Ed .; together with R. Stöss).
  • 1994: Elections and European unification, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (Ed .; together with H. Schmitt).
  • 1994: Parties and voters in transition, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (Ed .; together with R. Stöss).
  • 1994: Political structures under construction, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag (Ed .; together with H. Naßmacher and H. Wollmann).
  • 1995: Public Opinion and Internationalized Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Ed .; together with R. Sinnott).
  • 1996: Political culture in East and West Germany, unchanged. Reprint d. 1st ed., Opladen: Leske + Budrich (eds., Together with K. von Beyme).
  • 1996: Political System. KSPW reports on social and political change in East Germany, Vol. 3, Opladen: Leske + Budrich (together with M. Kaase, A. Eisen, OW Gabriel and H. Wollmann).
  • 1996: Intermediate structures in East Germany, Opladen: Leske + Budrich (ed.).
  • 1997: Party systems in post-communist societies in Eastern Europe, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (Ed .; together with D. Segert and R. Stöss).
  • 1997: Party democracy in Germany, Bonn: Federal Center for Political Education and at the same time Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (Ed., Together with OW Gabriel and R. Stöss).
  • 1999: The parties after the 1998 Bundestag election, Opladen: Leske + Budrich (eds.).
  • 2000: Democracy and Participation, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag (Ed., Together with Bettina Westle ).
  • 2001: Citizens and Politics, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • 2001: Party democracy in Germany, 2nd act. u. exp. Aufl., Bonn: Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed., Together with OW Gabriel and R. Stöss).
  • 2002: Party democracy in Germany, 2nd completely revised. u. actual Ed., Bonn / Opladen: Federal Agency for Civic Education / West German Publishing House (ed., Together with OW Gabriel and R. Stöss).
  • 2003: Public opinion on the future shape of the EU, Bonn: Europa Union Verlag.
  • 2003: The political parties after the federal election in 2002. Opladen: Leske + Budrich (ed.).
  • 2005: Citizens and Politics. - 2nd act. u. exp. Edition Wiesbaden. VS publishing house for social sciences.
  • 2005: The 2004 European elections. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Ed., Together with H. Schmitt)
  • 2006: The party systems of Western Europe. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Ed., Together with R. Stöss and M. Haas).
  • 2009: The future of the member party. Budrich, Opladen (Ed., Together with E. Wiesendahl and Uwe Jun), ISBN 978-3-86649-204-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Thiele: On the upswing, nosedive or stable? In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 21, 2016, accessed July 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Niedermayer, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönau / Odenwald