Peter Massing
Peter Massing (born April 10, 1946 in Dessau ) is a German political scientist .
From 1966 to 1973 Massing studied political science, sociology , economics , psychology , history and journalism at the universities of Mainz and Hamburg ; In 1973 he obtained his diploma in political science. In 1977 he received his PhD from the University of Hamburg with a thesis on democracy theory. phil. PhD . From 1978 to 1986 Massing worked as a research assistant and later as a university assistant for educational policy and educational planning at the Free University of Berlin ; then until 1989 as editor and from 1989 to 2004 as head of the department for political education at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science . From 2002 until his retirement in 2014 he held the chair for social studies and didactics of politics at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin, and has been a senior professor there since then.
Works (selection)
- Interest and consensus. For the reconstruction and justification of normative-critical elements of neo-pluralist democratic theory , Opladen 1979, plus diss., Univ. Hamburg 1977. ISBN 3-8100-0265-8
- as editor: Basics of the history of ideas of democracy , Schwalbach 1999. ISBN 3-87920-581-7
- as editor together with Gotthard Breit: Democracy Theories. From antiquity to the present. Texts and Interpretations , Schwalbach 2001. ISBN 3-87920-064-5 (also available as bpb edition, Bonn 2003: Demokratie-Theorien ( Memento from December 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
- as editor together with Gotthard Breit: Der Staat. Basics of the history of ideas, change in tasks, position of the citizen. An introduction , Schwalbach 2003. ISBN 3-89974-072-6
- Editor of the former trade journal: " Politische Bildung " (together with Gotthard Breit , Johannes Varwick , Uwe Andersen , Wichard Woyke , Stefan Schieren ), is published four times a year by Wochenschau Verlag . Source: www.wochenschau-verlag.de/pb
- since 2015 co-editor of the magazine Politikum .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Massing in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about Peter Massing on the website of the Free University of Berlin
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Massing, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |